毛病

Character by character

• 毛máo4 strokesHSK 1hair, fur, feathers; coarse
• 病bìng10 strokesHSK 1illness, sickness, disease

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Example sentences

• 我的腿有什么毛病？

  Wǒ de tuǐ yǒu shén me máo bìng

  What's wrong with my legs?

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 毛病. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 病bìngHSK 1

  illness; disease; to fall ill; defect

• 病人bìng rénHSK 1

  sick person; patient; invalid

• 毛máoHSK 1

  hair; feather; down; wool; mildew; mold; coarse or semifinished; young; raw; careless; unthinking; nervous; scared; (of currency) to devalue or depreciate; classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角 , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分)

• 病毒bìng dúHSK 5

  virus

• 疾病jí bìngHSK 6

  disease; sickness; ailment

• 生病shēng bìngHSK 1

  to fall ill

• 病情bìng qíngHSK 6

  state of an illness; patient's condition

• 毛衣máo yīHSK 4

  (wool) sweater

• 心脏病xīn zàng bìngHSK 6

  heart disease

• 艾滋病ài zī bìngHSK 7

  AIDS (loanword)

• 糖尿病táng niào bìngHSK 7

  diabetes; diabetes mellitus

• 病房bìng fángHSK 6

  ward (of a hospital); sickroom

• 毛巾máo jīnHSK 4

  towel

• 看病kàn bìngHSK 1

  to visit a doctor; to see a patient

• 精神病jīng shén bìngHSK 7

  mental disorder; psychosis

• 眉毛méi maoHSK 7

  eyebrow

• 发病fā bìngHSK 6

  (of an illness) to occur; (of a person) to get sick; to fall ill; onset (of a medical condition)

• 传染病chuán rǎn bìngHSK 7

  infectious disease; contagious disease; pestilence

• 治病zhì bìngHSK 6

  to treat an illness

• 病床bìng chuángHSK 7

  hospital bed; sickbed

• 病症bìng zhèngHSK 7

  disease; illness

• 患病huàn bìngHSK 7

  to fall ill

• 羽毛球yǔ máo qiúHSK 5

  shuttlecock; badminton

• 职业病zhí yè bìngHSK 7

  occupational disease