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病
Mandarin · pinyin bìng
Meanings
- illness
- Classifier: 場 cháng
- disease
- to fall ill
- defect
Characters in this entry
- 病
- bìng · illness, sickness, disease
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Mandarin tones
4 · bing4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
beng6 · bing6
Cantonese word readings for 病. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- illness; sickness; disease
- evil; ill; malady
- fault; flaw; defect
- to fall ill; to be sick; to be ill
- (literary) to injure; to do harm to
- (literary) distress; disapproval
- (literary) to criticize; to denounce
- (literary) exhausted; tired out
- (literary) withered; dried up; wizened
- (literary) to worry; to be anxious
- (Mainland China Hokkien) incompetent; good-for-nothing
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) foolish; stupid; slow-witted
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