Chinese symbol for “virus”

病毒

bìng dú

virus

The closest CC-CEDICT match for virus is 病毒 (bìng dú), defined as: virus.

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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

Related words

Other words that share a character with 病毒.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
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
毒品	dú pǐn	drugs; narcotics
有毒	yǒu dú	poisonous
中毒	zhòng dú	to be poisoned

See also: Japanese symbol for “virus”.

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.