病友

Chinese

		ailment; illness; disease ailment; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect	friend
simp. and trad. (病友)		病	友

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bìngyǒu

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄥˋ ㄧㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): beng⁶ jau⁵
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): bên⁷ iu²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bìngyǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄥˋ ㄧㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bìngyǒu
    • Wade–Giles: ping⁴-yu³
    • Yale: bìng-yǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: binqyeou
    • Palladius: бинъю (binʺju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ⁵¹ joʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: beng⁶ jau⁵
    • Yale: behng yáuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: beng⁶ jau⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: béng⁶ yeo⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛːŋ²² jɐu̯¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bên⁷ iu²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pēⁿ iú
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pẽ¹¹ iu⁵²/

Noun

病友

1. wardmate; friend made while staying at a hospital; (in general) fellow disease patient; person with whom one shares a medical condition

Japanese

Kanji in this term
病	友
びょう Grade: 3	ゆう Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

Sinitic compound of 病 (byō, “sick”) +‎ 友 (yū, “friend”). Compare Mandarin 病友 (bìngyǒu, “wardmate; a friend made in hospital”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) びょーゆう [byòóyúú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [bʲo̞ːjɯ̟ᵝː]

Noun

病(びょう)友(ゆう) • (byōyū) ^{←びやういう (byauiu)?}

1. a sick friend, a friend who is ill
2. different people who have the same disease (not necessarily friends)

References

• Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN