病

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illness; CL:場|场[chang2]; disease; to fall ill; defect

10 strokes Dict coverage rank #105 U+75C5

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

疒 (semantic, “sickness”) + 丙 (phonetic, bǐng)

components: 疒丙

illness · Heisig RSH #1292

sickness + 丙 third

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 丙

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 丙 (bǐng) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
丙 sound component	bǐng	third; 3rd heavenly stem
柄	bǐng	handle, lever, knob; authority
炳	bǐng	bright, luminous; glorious
邴	bǐng	an ancient city; pleased, happy; surname

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
高山病	gāo shān bìng	altitude sickness; acute mountain sickness
大病	dà bìng	serious illness
病人	bìng rén	sick person; patient; invalid; CL:個\|个[ge4]
病理学家	bìng lǐ xué jiā	pathologist
白化病	bái huà bìng	albinism
心病	xīn bìng	anxiety; sore point; secret worry; mental disorder; heart disease (medicine)
生病	shēng bìng	to fall ill
病理学	bìng lǐ xué	pathology
小病	xiǎo bìng	minor illness; indisposition
性病	xìng bìng	sexually transmitted disease; venereal disease
病家	bìng jiā	a patient and his family
三手病	sān shǒu bìng	repetitive strain injury (resulting from frequent use of one's thumb, wrist etc)
病机	bìng jī	interpretation of the cause; onset and process of an illness; pathogenesis
流行病学	liú xíng bìng xué	epidemiology
有病	yǒu bìng	to be ill; (coll.) to be not right in the head
公主病	gōng zhǔ bìng	(neologism c. 1997) (coll.) self-entitlement
发病	fā bìng	(of an illness) to occur; (of a person) to get sick; to fall ill; onset (of a medical cond…
一病不起	yī bìng bù qǐ	to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)
光化性角化病	guāng huà xìng jiǎo huà bìng	(medicine) actinic keratosis, aka solar keratosis
多发病	duō fā bìng	frequently reoccurring disease