病
病 — byeong
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 병 병
- Romanization
- byeong
- English
- illness, sickness, disease
- Mandarin
- bìng
- Japanese on'yomi
- ビョウ, ヘイ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- や.む -や.み やまい
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 3
- Newspaper frequency
- #384 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 疒 (104, 5 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 丙(병)
- Unicode
- U+75C5
Parts that make up 病
- 疒 병상에 기댄 사람병과 아픔
- 丙 남녘 병sound 어깨 또는 물고기 꼬리 또는 받침대셋째 천간. ‘병’ 계열의 소리
How 病 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 病 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 疒, 丙.
Korean example words with 病
- 만병萬病 Korean gloss: 온갖 병
- 병구病軀 Korean gloss: 병든 몸
- 병기病氣 Korean gloss: 병의 기운
- 병명病名 Korean gloss: 병의 이름
- 병인病因 Korean gloss: 병의 원인
- 병측病側 Korean gloss: 병석의 곁
- 신병身病 Korean gloss: 몸에 생긴 병
- 요병妖病 Korean gloss: 요사스러운 병
- 질병疾病 Korean gloss: 몸의 온갖 병
- 병고病故 Korean gloss: 병에 걸리는 일
- 병환病患 Korean gloss: ‘병’의 높임말
- 급병急病 Korean gloss: 병세가 위급한 병
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 病
- 病院びょういん hospital; clinic; doctor's office
- 病気びょうき illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; sickness
- 水俣病みなまたびょう Minamata disease
- 糖尿病とうにょうびょう diabetes; diabetes mellitus
- 白血病はっけつびょう leukemia; leukaemia
- 病状びょうじょう condition of a patient; state of a disease; pathology
- 病棟びょうとう (hospital) ward
- 難病なんびょう serious disease; intractable disease; difficult-to-recover-from illness
- 成人病せいじんびょう disease common in middle-aged and elderly people; lifestyle disease
- 心臓病しんぞうびょう heart disease; heart trouble; cardiopathy
- 病室びょうしつ sickroom; hospital room; ward
- 血友病けつゆうびょう hemophilia; haemophilia
Characters sharing the phonetic 丙
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “병” in Korean.
Other hanja read “병”
Other hanja with radical 疒
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences