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Chinese symbol for “pathology”

病理
bìng lǐ
pathology

The closest CC-CEDICT match for pathology is 病理 (bìng lǐ), defined as: pathology.

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Characters and stroke order

病 bìng
sickness, illness, disease
radical 104 ⽧ · 10 strokes
理 lǐ
science, reason, logic; to manage
radical 96 ⽟ · 11 strokes

Other Chinese words for “pathology”

WordPinyinMeaning
病理学 (病理學)bìng lǐ xuépathology

Related words

Other words that share a character with 病理.

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
管理guǎn lǐto supervise; to manage
处理 (處理)chǔ lǐto handle; to deal with; to punish

See also: Japanese symbol for “pathology”.

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.