疾病
jíbìng · HSK 6
ailment
🤒 Sounds like jeep-bang — a crash that leaves you ailing
疾 pairs the arrow radical with the sickness radical — illness that strikes fast. 病 adds another sickness radical. Two sick characters stacked for one word: disease.
病 — sickness radical 疒 + 丙 (bǐng, phonetic)
病 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The radical 疒 depicts a person lying on a bed and signals illness or ailment. The component 丙 supplies the sound (bǐng → bìng). Originally 病 referred to a serious illness, contrasted with 疾 for a lighter ailment; today it broadly means 'sick' or 'disease.'