Skip to content
Mythic Mandarin

生病 (shēng bìng): meaning and stroke order

生病 (shēng bìng) means to fall ill.

生病

Simplified
生病
Traditional
生病 (same form)
Pinyin
shēng bìng

Stroke order of 生病

生

  • shēng to be born; to give birth
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

病

  • bìng illness; CL:場|场[chang2]
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 生病

  1. shēng bìng
    • to fall ill

Radicals of the characters

生
Radical 生 (Kangxi radical 100) · 5 strokes · built from 𠂉 and 土
病
Radical 疒 (Kangxi radical 104) · 10 strokes · built from 疒 and 丙

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

生病 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 医生说：“这就叫‘杯弓蛇影’。很多时候，让人生病的不是蛇，而是心里的怕。”

    yīshēng shuō zhè jiù jiào bēi gōng shé yǐng hěn duō shíhou ràng rén shēngbìng de bú shì shé érshì xīnli de pà

    The doctor said, "That's 'the bow's reflection taken for a snake'. Very often what makes people ill isn't the snake, it's the fear inside."

    From the story The bow's reflection in the cup HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 生病

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).