Chinese symbol for “pains”
病苦
bìng kǔ
pains (of illness); sufferings (esp. in Buddhism)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for pains is 病苦 (bìng kǔ), defined as: pains (of illness); sufferings (esp. in Buddhism).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “pains”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 周章 | zhōu zhāng | (literary) effort; trouble; pains (to get sth done); (literary) frightened; terrified |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 病苦.
| 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 |
| 痛苦 | tòng kǔ | pain; suffering |
| 辛苦 | xīn kǔ | exhausting; hard |
See also: Japanese symbol for “pains”.
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.