Chinese symbol for “lesion”

病变

bìng biàn

Traditional: 病變

pathological change; lesion; to undergo pathological change

The closest CC-CEDICT match for lesion is 病变 (bìng biàn), defined as: pathological change; lesion; to undergo pathological change.

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Characters and stroke order

病 bìng

sickness, illness, disease

radical 104 ⽧ · 10 strokes

变 biàn

to change, to transform, to alter; rebel

radical 29 ⼜ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

變 biàn

Other Chinese words for “lesion”

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
病灶	bìng zào	(medicine) lesion; focus of disease; nidus

Related words

Other words that share a character with 病变.

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
改变 (改變)	gǎi biàn	to change; to alter
变化 (變化)	biàn huà	(intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation

See also: Japanese symbol for “lesion”.

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.