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Chinese symbol for “invalid”

病人
bìng rén
sick person; patient; invalid; 个 (gè)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for invalid is 病人 (bìng rén), defined as: sick person; patient; invalid; 个 (gè).

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

病 bìng
sickness, illness, disease
radical 104 ⽧ · 10 strokes
人 rén
man, person; people
radical 9 ⼈ · 2 strokes

Other Chinese words for “invalid”

WordPinyinMeaning
病弱bìng ruòsick and weak; sickly
病残 (病殘)bìng cánsick or disabled; invalid

Related words

Other words that share a character with 病人.

WordPinyinMeaning
病毒bìng dúvirus
疾病jí bìngdisease; sickness; ailment
病例bìng lì(medical) case; occurrence of illness
生病shēng bìngto fall ill
艾滋病ài zī bìng(loanword) AIDS
人民rén mínthe people
人们 (人們)rén menpeople
有人yǒu rénsomeone; people

See also: Japanese symbol for “invalid”.

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.

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