HSK 3.0 Level 1 · Body

看病 kànbìng “to visit a doctor” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 看病 means

  1. to visit a doctor
  2. to see a patient

How to say 看病

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale看kàn4th 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

看病 in a sentence

  1. 医生在给病人看病。

    Yīshēng zài gěi bìngrén kànbìng.

    The doctor is seeing a patient.

    Sentence #2200417 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我要看病。

    Wǒ yào kànbìng.

    I need to see a doctor.

    Sentence #859469 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你应该去看病。

    Nǐ yīnggāi qù kànbìng.

    You should see a doctor.

    Sentence #3699941 from Tatoeba

How 看病 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 看 (kàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
看kànto see; to look at
  • 手hand · shǒu
  • 目eye · mù

Memory aidA hand 手 shading the eyes 目: to look.

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 看病

看 9 strokes · 病 10 strokes

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

Words related to 看病

Words with 看

看kàn · to look看见kànjiàn · to see好看hǎokàn · good-looking看来kànlái · it seems难看nánkàn · ugly看法kànfǎ · way of looking at a thing看望kànwàng · to visit看不起kànbuqǐ · to look down upon看待kàndài · to regard

Words with 病

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弊病bìbìng · drawback

More words: People, Body & Health

有些yǒuxiē · some这些zhèxiē · these那个nàge · that one这个zhège · this one服务员fúwùyuán · waiter男nán · male女nǚ · female妻子qīzi · wife

FAQs

看病 (kànbìng) means “to visit a doctor” or “to see a patient”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word.
Say it kànbìng: kàn 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. 看病 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kanbing with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 看病 from the suggestions. Typing kanbing into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
看病 is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 1 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.