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Chinese symbol for “virology”

病毒学
bìng dú xué
Traditional: 病毒學
virology (study of viruses)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for virology is 病毒学 (bìng dú xué), defined as: virology (study of viruses).

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Characters and stroke order

病 bìng
sickness, illness, disease
radical 104 ⽧ · 10 strokes
毒 dú
poison, venom; drug, narcotic
radical 80 ⽏ · 9 strokes
学 xué
learning, knowledge, science; to study, to go to school; -ology
radical 39 ⼦ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 病毒学.

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
毒品dú pǐndrugs; narcotics
有毒yǒu dúpoisonous
学生 (學生)xué shengstudent; schoolchild

See also: Japanese symbol for “virology”.

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.