并 bìng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 干 — arid, dry
- Made of
- 丷 horns 开 to open
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
并发症
bìngfāzhèng
complication; concurrent disease
Characters in this word
发 fā
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 又 — and, also, again, in addition
症 zhèng
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 疒 — sickness, disease
- Made of
- 疒 sickness, disease 正 straight, right, proper, correct, just, true
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 手术本身并不复杂，真正棘手的是术后可能出现的并发症。 Shǒushù běnshēn bìng bù fùzá, zhēnzhèng jíshǒu de shì shùhòu kěnéng chūxiàn de bìngfāzhèng. The surgery itself is not complicated; what is truly difficult is the complications that may appear after the operation.
- 糖尿病如果不控制，可能引起很多并发症。 Tángniàobìng rúguǒ bù kòngzhì, kěnéng yǐnqǐ hěn duō bìngfāzhèng. If diabetes is not controlled, it may cause many complications.
- 医生说他恢复得很好，没有出现任何并发症。 Yīshēng shuō tā huīfù de hěn hǎo, méiyǒu chūxiàn rènhé bìngfāzhèng. The doctor said he was recovering well and had no complications at all.
Related words
- 并 bìng at all (with negatives)
- 并且 bìngqiě and; moreover
- 并 bìng to join together
- 合并 hébìng to merge; to combine
- 并非 bìngfēi is not; by no means
- 并购 bìnggòu merger and acquisition; to acquire and merge
- 并肩 bìngjiān shoulder to shoulder; side by side
- 并列 bìngliè to stand side by side; to be listed side by side
- 并行 bìngxíng to run in parallel; parallel
- 相提并论 xiāngtíbìnglùn to mention in the same breath; to compare as equals
- 一并 yíbìng together; all at once
- 出发 chūfā to set out