Illness in Chinese
illness · HSK 1
病
Counted with 场: 一场病
他的病好多了。 His illness is much better.
Other ways to say illness
More words with 病
How do you say illness in Chinese?
Illness in Chinese is 病 (bìng). You can also say 疾病 (jí bìng), 毛病 (máo bìng).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.