精神分裂病

Chinese

		schizophrenia; psychosis	ailment; illness; disease ailment; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect
trad. (精神分裂病)		精神分裂	病
simp. #(精神分裂病)		精神分裂	病

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīngshén fēnlièbìng

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄥ ㄕㄣˊ ㄈㄣ ㄌㄧㄝˋ ㄅㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zing¹ san⁴ fan¹ lit⁶ beng⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jīngshén fēnlièbìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄥ ㄕㄣˊ ㄈㄣ ㄌㄧㄝˋ ㄅㄧㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jingshén fenlièbìng
    • Wade–Giles: ching¹-shên² fên¹-lieh⁴-ping⁴
    • Yale: jīng-shén fēn-lyè-bìng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jingshern fenliehbinq
    • Palladius: цзиншэнь фэньлебин (czinšɛnʹ fɛnʹlebin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ʂən³⁵ fən⁵⁵ li̯ɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ piŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zing¹ san⁴ fan¹ lit⁶ beng⁶
    • Yale: jīng sàhn fān liht behng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzing¹ san⁴ fan¹ lit⁹ beng⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: jing¹ sen⁴ fen¹ lid⁶ béng⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪŋ⁵⁵ sɐn²¹ fɐn⁵⁵ liːt̚² pɛːŋ²²/

Noun

精神分裂病

1. (psychiatry) Alternative name for 精神分裂症 (jīngshén fēnlièzhèng, “schizophrenia”).

Japanese

Kanji in this term
精	神	分	裂	病
せい Grade: 5	しん Grade: 3	ぶん Grade: 2	れつ Grade: S	びょう Grade: 3
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
精神分裂病 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Compound of 精神 (seishin, “mind, intellect; psyche”) +‎ 分裂 (bunretsu, “split; break apart”) +‎ 病 (byō, “disease, sickness, illness”). Coined in Japan in the Meiji period as a calque of German Schizophrenie.

The Japanese term 精神 (seishin, “mind”) has overtones of reason or intellect in ordinary use, leading historically to some confusion regarding this diagnosis, as persons with schizophrenia do not necessarily exhibit any breakdown of intellect. The misnomer nature of this word, as well as the stigma associated with this pejorative term, ultimately led the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology to formally relabel the disease in 2002 as 統合失調症 (tōgō shitchō shō, literally “comprehensive disharmony/imbalance disorder”), a name alluding to the biopsychosocial model of mental illnesses.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) せーしんぶんれつびょー [sèéshíń búńrétsú byóó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [se̞ːɕĩm bɯ̟̃ᵝnɾe̞t͡sɨᵝ bʲo̞ː]

Noun

精(せい)神(しん)分(ぶん)裂(れつ)病(びょう) • (seishin bunretsu byō) 

1. (dated, potentially offensive) schizophrenia

Synonyms

• 統合(とうごう)失調(しっちょう)症(しょう) (tōgō shitchō shō): the modern term for schizophrenia

Derived terms

• 精神(せいしん)分裂(ぶんれつ)病(びょう)患者(かんじゃ) (seishin bunretsu byō kanja): (dated, deprecated, potentially offensive) a schizophrene, a person suffering from schizophrenia