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Chinese symbol for “complications”

并发症
bìng fā zhèng
Traditional: 併發症
complications (undesired side-effect of medical procedure)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for complications is 并发症 (bìng fā zhèng), defined as: complications (undesired side-effect of medical procedure).

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Characters and stroke order

并 bìng
to combine, to annex; also, what's more
radical 51 ⼲ · 6 strokes
发 fā
to issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair
radical 29 ⼜ · 5 strokes
症 zhèng
ailment, disease, illness
radical 104 ⽧ · 10 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 并发症.

WordPinyinMeaning
并且 (並且)bìng qiěand; besides; moreover; furthermore; in addition
并非 (並非)bìng fēireally isn't
合并 (合並)hé bìngvariant of 合并 (hé bìng)
并未 (並未)bìng wèi(used to stress that sth did not turn out as one might have expected) did not actually ...; has not actually ...
并购 (併購)bìng gòumerger and acquisition (M and A); acquisition
发展 (發展)fā zhǎndevelopment; growth
发生 (發生)fā shēngto happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises")
发现 (發現)fā xiànto notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect
症状 (症狀)zhèng zhuàngsymptom (of an illness)

See also: Japanese symbol for “complications”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.