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生病

shēng bìng 1–4

to fall ill

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 2.0 level 2 · HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
生 · 病
Syllables
2
shēng bìng
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 4,336

Part of speech: v

Character by character

  • 生shēng5 strokesHSK 1life, living, lifetime; birth
  • 病bìng10 strokesHSK 1illness, sickness, disease

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我生病了。

    Wǒ shēng bìng le

    I am sick.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 生病. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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