病
bìng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
An illness or disease; as a verb, to fall ill. With 了 it says someone is ill now: 我病了 'I'm ill'. To see a doctor is 看病, to get ill 生病, and a patient is 病人.
Bệnh, ốm: tình trạng cơ thể không khỏe; làm động từ là bị bệnh. Thêm 了 để nói ai đang ốm: 我病了 (tôi ốm rồi). Đi khám bệnh là 看病, bị bệnh là 生病, người bệnh là 病人.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “bệnh” (benh-nam). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “病” mean?
An illness or disease; as a verb, to fall ill. With 了 it says someone is ill now: 我病了 'I'm ill'. To see a doctor is 看病, to get ill 生病, and a patient is 病人.
Is “病” formal or informal?
病 is generally neutral.