病 (beng6 bing6 | bing4) : sick; ill; defect; fault

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病

beng6 bing6

bing4

[1] [n] sickness; illness; disease
[2] [v] fall ill; be sick; sicken
[3] [n] defect; fault; malady; blame

Jyutping beng6 is the more popular colloquial reading; literary reading bing6 is rarely used.

Default PoS:

Additional PoS:

Stroke count: 10

Level: 1

Radical: 疒 (#104)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

病

This word has been viewed 22318 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 7th Apr 2016 04:41

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有病 jau5 beng6 you3 bing4 = to be sick; become ill

病人 beng6 jan4 bing4 ren2 = [n] patient; sick person

病倒 beng6 dou2 bing4 dao3 = down with an illness

睇病 tai2 beng6 = consult a doctor 粵

探病 taam3 beng6 tan4 bing4 = visit a sick person

病院 beng6 jyun2 bing4 yuan4 = specialized hospital

性病 sing3 beng6 xing4 bing4 = sexually transmitted disease

病假 beng6 gaa3 bing4 jia4 = sick leave

病死 beng6 sei2 = die of illness

病床 beng6 cong4 bing4 chuang2 = sickbed
See all 206 compounds (CantoDict reports 215 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 10 examples containing 病

我有病。
I am feeling ill.

我病到死死下! 粵
I am so ill I feel like dying!

佢病到五顏六色粵
He is seriously ill.

佢今日冇返工，唔通佢病咗？粵
He did not go to work today; could it be he's sick?

搶救病人
give emergency treatment to a patient

你的腦子有毛病? 國
"Are you out of your mind?"

食咗腐敗嘅食物容易生病。粵
You are liable to get sick by eating putrid food.

佢病咗, 唔怪之得唔嚟啦! 粵
He is sick. No wonder he's failed to turn up!

呢隻藥醫得翻好個病人。粵
This medicine is able to cure the patient.
[The verb 醫 is followed by three particles: 得, 翻, 好. 得 is potential particle; 翻 is resumptive marker; 好 is resultative particle. ]

佢隻狗有糖尿病，所以每日要打胰島素粵
Her dog has diabetes, so it needs insulin shots each day.

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粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
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