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Chinese symbol for “pathogen”

病原体
bìng yuán tǐ
Traditional: 病原體
(med.) pathogen

The closest CC-CEDICT match for pathogen is 病原体 (bìng yuán tǐ), defined as: (med.) pathogen.

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
原 yuán
source, origin, beginning
radical 27 ⼚ · 10 strokes
体 tǐ
body; group, class; form, style, system
radical 9 ⼈ · 7 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “pathogen”

WordPinyinMeaning
病原菌bìng yuán jūna pathogen; a bacterial pathogen
病因bìng yīncause of disease; pathogen
病原bìng yuáncause of disease; pathogen

Related words

Other words that share a character with 病原体.

WordPinyinMeaning
病毒bìng dúvirus
疾病jí bìngdisease; sickness; ailment
病人bìng rénsick person; patient
病例bìng lì(medical) case; occurrence of illness
生病shēng bìngto fall ill
艾滋病ài zī bìng(loanword) AIDS
原因yuán yīncause; origin
原来 (原來)yuán láioriginal; former; originally; formerly; at first
媒体 (媒體)méi tǐmedia, esp. news media

See also: Japanese symbol for “pathogen”.

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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