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byeong · TOPIK 1

illness, disease

🤒💊 病 = sickbed radical 疒 + sound part 丙 (byeong)

From hanja 病: the radical 疒 marks sickness, and 丙 supplies the sound, read byeong in Korean. Same root as Chinese bìng and Japanese byō. Appears in 병원 (hospital = illness + house) and 병들다 (to fall ill).

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