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病

病

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

病 (radical 104 疒+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大一人月 (KMOB), four-corner 00127, composition ⿸疒丙)

References

  • KangXi: page 772, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22127
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1182, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2664, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+75C5

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 病

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
更 *kraːŋ, *kraːŋs
粳 *kraːŋ
埂 *kraːŋ, *kraːŋʔ
浭 *kraːŋ
稉 *kraːŋ
梗 *kraːŋʔ
哽 *kraːŋʔ
綆 *kraːŋʔ
鯁 *kraːŋʔ
挭 *kraːŋʔ
骾 *kraːŋʔ
郠 *kraːŋʔ
硬 *ŋɡraːŋs, *ŋɡraːŋs
鞕 *ŋɡraːŋs
丙 *pqraŋʔ
炳 *praŋʔ
邴 *praŋʔ, *praŋs
怲 *praŋʔ, *praŋs
苪 *praŋʔ
蛃 *praŋʔ
昺 *praŋʔ
昞 *praŋʔ
窉 *praŋʔ
柄 *praŋʔ, *praŋs
鈵 *praŋs
寎 *praŋs
病 *braŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *braŋs) : semantic 疒 ‎(“sickness”) + phonetic 丙 ‎(OC *pqraŋʔ) – illness. Note that 丙 also means “fire”, hence connotations of “lying feverishly in bed”.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 病
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 庚 (111)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 皮命切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bˠiæŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bᵚiaŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biaŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /biajŋH/
Li
Rong		 /biɐŋH/
Wang
Li		 /bĭɐŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯ɐŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bìng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 病
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bìng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjængH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[b]raŋ-s/
English extreme illness

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 病
Reading # 1/1
No. 898
Phonetic
component		 丙
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 病
Old
Chinese		 /*braŋs/

Definitions

病

  1. illness; sickness; disease
  2. evil; ills
  3. fault; flaw
  4. to fall ill; to be sick; to be ill

Compounds

  • 病患 (bìnghuàn)
  • 病情 (bìngqíng)
  • 病愈
  • 病態／病态 (bìngtài)
  • 病態肥胖／病态肥胖
  • 病懨懨／病恹恹
  • 病房 (bìngfáng)
  • 病故
  • 病机
  • 病株
  • 病根
  • 病歷／病历 (bìnglì)
  • 病死 (bìngsǐ)
  • 病毒 (bìngdú)
  • 病毒學／病毒学
  • 病毒學家／病毒学家
  • 病毒性
  • 病毒感染
  • 病毒科
  • 病毒血症
  • 病民害國／病民害国
  • 病民蠱國／病民蛊国

Japanese

Kanji

病

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. have a disease; disease
  2. being stiff and not able to move
  3. difficult
  4. suffer
  5. make one suffer

Readings

Compounds

References

  • New Nelson: 3798
  • Halpern: 3277
  • Halpern Learners: 2059
  • Heisig: 1682
  • Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 5i5.3
  1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.
Kanji in this term
病
やまい
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

病 ‎(hiragana やまい, romaji yamai, historical hiragana やまひ)

  1. disease, illness
    彼 (かれ)は病 (やまい)を患 (わずら)った。
    Kare wa yamai o wazuratta.
    He is affected with disease.
  2. a bad habit
    彼 (かれ)は人 (ひと)の物 (もの)をとる病 (やまい)がある。
    Kare wa hito no mono o toru yamai ga aru.
    He is light-fingered.

Suffix

病 ‎(hiragana びょう, romaji -byō)

  1. disease, illness

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

病 • ‎(byeong) (hangeul 병, McCune-Reischauer pyŏng, Yale pyeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

病 (bệnh, bạnh, nạch, bịnh)

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