Sentence #8650501 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 病人 is built
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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.
人rénperson; people
人 is a single shape of 2 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.
Memory aidA person walking, seen from the side: two legs.
How to write 病人
病 10 strokes · 人 2 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 病人 (bìngrén). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
病人 (bìngrén) means “patient” or “sick person”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it bìngrén: bìng with a 4th tone, then rén with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 病人 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one patient is 一个病人 (yí ge bìngrén).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bingren with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 病人 from the suggestions. Typing bingren into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
病人 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 4 word list. It is not on the older 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.
病bìng4th tone, falling
人rén2nd tone, rising
