Sentence #780260 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 生病 is built
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生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce
生 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.
Memory aidA shoot growing up out of the soil 土: to grow, to be born.
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 生病
生 5 strokes · 病 10 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 生病 (shēngbìng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
生病 (shēngbìng) means “to get sick” or “to fall ill”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it shēngbìng: shēng with a 1st 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. 生病 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shengbing with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 生病 from the suggestions. Typing shengbing into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
生病 is an HSK 2 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.
生shēng1st tone, high and level
病bìng4th tone, falling
