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.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “pathogen”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 病原菌 | bìng yuán jūn | a pathogen; a bacterial pathogen |
| 病因 | bìng yīn | cause of disease; pathogen |
| 病原 | bìng yuán | cause of disease; pathogen |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 病原体.
| 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 |
| 原因 | yuán yīn | cause; origin |
| 原来 (原來) | yuán lái | original; former; originally; formerly; at first |
| 媒体 (媒體) | méi tǐ | media, 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.