带病

帶病
dàibìng
verb #37,692

Meanings

  1. 1 to be sick (often: while sick)
  2. 2 to carry a disease (as a vector)

Examples

Tā dàibìng jiānchí shàngbān.
He went to work despite being sick.
Zhè zhǒng wénzi kěnéng dàibìng chuánbō bìngdú.
This kind of mosquito can carry and transmit the virus.

Tips

culture
带病坚持工作 ("working through illness") used to be praised as dedication in Chinese workplaces; post-COVID, attitudes shifted hard — staying home when sick is now seen as the responsible choice. The phrase still appears in news but more often with quotation-mark skepticism.
grammar
Functions adverbially before another verb: 带病上班 (work while sick), 带病参赛 (compete while sick). Less commonly, in epidemiology it means "to harbor/carry a pathogen" — 带病昆虫 disease-carrying insects.

Stroke Order

dài
bìng