HSK 6 · Ideas

弊病 bìbìng “drawback” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 弊病 means

  1. drawback
  2. malady
  3. abuse
  4. evil
  5. malpractice
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • disadvantage

How to say 弊病

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale弊bì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale病bìng4th tone, falling

弊病 in a sentence

  1. 这种管理方法有很多弊病。

    Zhè zhǒng guǎnlǐ fāngfǎ yǒu hěn duō bìbìng.

    This way of managing has many drawbacks.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 我们要找出制度中的弊病。

    Wǒmen yào zhǎochū zhìdù zhōng de bìbìng.

    We need to find the flaws in the system.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 弊病 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 弊 (bì) with each of its parts in a different colour
弊bìdetriment
  • 敝to break · bì
  • 廾two hands · gǒng
The character 病 (bìng) with each of its parts in a different colour
病bìngillness
  • 疒sickness · nèMeaning part
  • 丙part of the characterSound part

Memory aidSickness 疒, drawn from a bed, with 丙 (bǐng) for the sound: illness.

How to write 弊病

弊 14 strokes · 病 10 strokes

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弊病 (bìbìng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 弊病 (bìbìng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 弊病

Words with 弊

作弊zuòbì · to cheat (in an exam)弊端bìduān · abuse

Words with 病

看病kànbìng · to visit a doctor病bìng · illness生病shēngbìng · to get sick病人bìngrén · patient病毒bìngdú · virus毛病máobìng · fault疾病jíbìng · disease

More words: Ideas & Concepts

本事běnshi · ability变故biàngù · misfortune变迁biànqiān · changes辩证biànzhèng · dialectical弊端bìduān · abuse比方bǐfang · example比喻bǐyù · metaphor比重bǐzhòng · proportion

FAQs

弊病 (bìbìng) means “drawback” or “malady”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bìbìng: bì with a 4th tone, then bìng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 弊病 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bibing with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 弊病 from the suggestions. Typing bibing into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
弊病 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.