病原

Chinese

		ailment; illness; disease ailment; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect	former; original; primary former; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source
simp. and trad. (病原)		病	原

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bìngyuán

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄥˋ ㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): beng⁶ jyun⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pēⁿ-goân / pīⁿ-goân

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bìngyuán
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄥˋ ㄩㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bìngyuán
    • Wade–Giles: ping⁴-yüan²
    • Yale: bìng-ywán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: binqyuan
    • Palladius: бинъюань (binʺjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ⁵¹ ɥɛn³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: beng⁶ jyun⁴
    • Yale: behng yùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: beng⁶ jyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: béng⁶ yun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛːŋ²² jyːn²¹/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 病原 病員／病员 病源

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pēⁿ-goân / pīⁿ-goân
    • Tâi-lô: pēnn-guân / pīnn-guân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvexgoaan, pvixgoaan
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pẽ²²⁻²¹ ɡuan²⁴/, /pĩ²²⁻²¹ ɡuan²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pẽ⁴¹⁻²² ɡuan²⁴/, /pĩ⁴¹⁻²² ɡuan²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pɛ̃²²⁻²¹ ɡuan¹³/, /pĩ²²⁻²¹ ɡuan¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pẽ³³⁻¹¹ ɡuan²⁴/, /pĩ³³⁻¹¹ ɡuan²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pẽ³³⁻²¹ ɡuan²³/, /pĩ³³⁻²¹ ɡuan²³/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 病原

1. cause of disease
2. Short for 病原菌 (bìngyuánjūn, “pathogen; bacterial pathogen”).

Synonyms

• (cause of disease): 病源 (bìngyuán)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
病	原
びょう Grade: 3	げん Grade: 2
on’yomi

Alternative forms

• 病源

Noun

病(びょう)原(げん) • (byōgen) 

1. cause or source of a disease, pathogenesis, etiology

Derived terms

• 病原体: agent of disease, pathogen