弊 bì
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 廾 — two hands
- Made of
- 敝 to break, to destroy 廾 two hands
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
弊病
bìbìng
malady; defect; drawback
Characters in this word
病 bìng
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 疒 — sickness, disease
- Made of
- 疒 sickness, disease 丙 third
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 这个制度最大的弊病在于责任分散，出了问题谁都可以推脱。 Zhège zhìdù zuì dà de bìbìng zàiyú zérèn fēnsàn, chū le wèntí shéi dōu kěyǐ tuītuō. The biggest flaw in this system is that responsibility is dispersed, so everyone can pass the buck when something goes wrong.
- 这套教学方法的弊病是学生只会背书，不会思考。 Zhè tào jiàoxué fāngfǎ de bìbìng shì xuésheng zhǐ huì bèishū, bú huì sīkǎo. The flaw of this teaching method is that students can only memorise and cannot think.
- 要解决这个弊病，首先得找到问题出在哪儿。 Yào jiějué zhège bìbìng, shǒuxiān děi zhǎodào wèntí chū zài nǎr. To fix this defect, you first have to find where the problem lies.
Related words
- 弊端 bìduān drawback; disadvantage
- 利弊 lìbì advantages and disadvantages; pros and cons
- 作弊 zuòbì to cheat
- 病 bìng illness; to be ill
- 病人 bìngrén patient, sick person
- 看病 kànbìng to see a doctor
- 生病 shēngbìng to fall ill
- 毛病 máobìng problem; defect
- 病毒 bìngdú virus
- 传染病 chuánrǎnbìng infectious disease
- 发病 fābìng to fall ill
- 艾滋病 àizībìng AIDS; HIV/AIDS