HSK 5 · Body

病毒 bìngdú “virus” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 病毒 means

  1. virus

How to say 病毒

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale病bìng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale毒dú2nd tone, rising

病毒 in a sentence

  1. 病毒开始变异了。

    Bìngdú kāishǐ biànyì le.

    The virus has started to mutate.

    Sentence #10357442 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 你有新冠病毒的症状吗？

    Nǐ yǒu Xīnguān bìngdú de zhèngzhuàng ma?

    Do you have any COVID symptoms?

    Sentence #8904342 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 新冠病毒很危险的。

    Xīnguān bìngdú hěn wēixiǎn de.

    COVID-19 is dangerous.

    Sentence #8854355 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 病毒 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 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.

The character 毒 (dú) with each of its parts in a different colour
毒dúpoison
  • 龶part of the characterMeaning part
  • 母mother · mǔSound part

How to write 病毒

病 10 strokes · 毒 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 病毒

Words with 病

看病kànbìng · to visit a doctor病bìng · illness生病shēngbìng · to get sick病人bìngrén · patient毛病máobìng · fault疾病jíbìng · disease弊病bìbìng · drawback

Words with 毒

消毒xiāodú · to disinfect毒品dúpǐn · drugs

More words: People, Body & Health

英雄yīngxióng · hero拥抱yōngbào · to embrace长辈zhǎngbèi · elder主人zhǔrén · master脖子bózi · neck传染chuánrǎn · to infect打喷嚏dǎpēntì · to sneeze骨头gǔtou · bone

FAQs

病毒 (bìngdú) means “virus”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it bìngdú: bìng with a 4th tone, then dú with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 病毒 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bingdu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 病毒 from the suggestions. Typing bingdu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
病毒 is an HSK 5 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 from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.