看病
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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
To see a doctor; said of a doctor, to treat patients. The patient 去看病 'goes to the doctor', often 去医院看病; the doctor 给人看病 'sees patients'. It is a verb plus object, so 了 can come between: 看了病.
Đi khám bệnh; nói về bác sĩ thì là khám, chữa bệnh cho người khác. Người bệnh thì 去看病 (đi khám bệnh), thường là 去医院看病; bác sĩ thì 给人看病 (khám bệnh cho người ta). Tiếng Việt nói “khám” chứ không nói “xem” bệnh.
VerbRegister: 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 ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “看病” mean?
To see a doctor; said of a doctor, to treat patients. The patient 去看病 'goes to the doctor', often 去医院看病; the doctor 给人看病 'sees patients'. It is a verb plus object, so 了 can come between: 看了病. Literally: look at illness
Is “看病” formal or informal?
看病 is generally neutral.