病房
bìngfáng · HSK 6
ward
🏥🛏️ 病 (illness) + 房 (room) = illness-room = hospital ward
病 means sickness or disease; 房 means room or chamber (same 房 as in 房间 room, 厨房 kitchen). Stack them and you get the room where sick people stay — a hospital ward.
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.'