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Chinese symbol for “diabetes”

糖尿病
táng niào bìng
diabetes; diabetes mellitus

The closest CC-CEDICT match for diabetes is 糖尿病 (táng niào bìng), defined as: diabetes; diabetes mellitus.

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Characters and stroke order

糖 táng
candy, sugar, sweets
radical 119 ⽶ · 16 strokes
尿 niào
urine; to urinate
radical 44 ⼫ · 7 strokes
病 bìng
sickness, illness, disease
radical 104 ⽧ · 10 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 糖尿病.

WordPinyinMeaning
糖果táng guǒcandy; measure word: 粒 (lì)
血糖xuè tángblood sugar
葡萄糖pú tao tángglucose C6H12O6
蔗糖zhè tángcane sugar; sucrose
口香糖kǒu xiāng tángchewing gum
撒尿sā niàoto pass water; to piss
尿液niào yèurine
尿布niào bùdiaper
病毒bìng dúvirus

See also: Japanese symbol for “diabetes”.

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.