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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 病根

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
病根 bìng gēn - an incompletely cured illness
- an old complaint
- the root cause of trouble

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 57,648 44,500 42,556

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
病 bìng- illness
- CL:場|场[chang2]
- disease
- to fall ill
- defect
根 gēn- root
- basis
- classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings
- CL:條|条[tiao2]
- radical (chemistry)

Other Words Containing 病根

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
病根 - - 57,648 44,500 42,556