病症
bìng zhèng · HSK 7
illness
🤒 illness + symptom = disease diagnosis
病 means illness or sick, 症 means symptom or condition. Together they form the general word for disease — the sickness plus its visible signs.
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.'