Chinese symbol for “illness”
病
bìng
illness; 场 (cháng); disease; to fall ill
The closest CC-CEDICT match for illness is 病 (bìng), defined as: illness; 场 (cháng); disease; to fall ill; defect.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “illness”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 病患 | bìng huàn | illness; disease |
| 症候 | zhèng hòu | illness; disease |
| 症 | zhèng | disease; illness |
| 病症 | bìng zhèng | disease; illness |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 病.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 病毒 | bìng dú | virus |
| 疾病 | jí bìng | disease; sickness; ailment |
| 病人 | bìng rén | sick person; patient |
| 病例 | bìng lì | (medical) case; occurrence of illness |
| 生病 | shēng bìng | to fall ill |
| 艾滋病 | ài zī bìng | (loanword) AIDS |
See also: Japanese symbol for “illness”.
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.