Decode these Chinese characters, please!

September 27, 2012 3:33 PM

Can you decode these hastily-written Chinese characters? Here's a picture.

I'm told that this refers to a skin condition. Any advice would be helpful!

posted by greatgefilte to writing & language (3 answers total)

I think that this says bing du which means virus.
posted by tinymegalo at 3:38 PM on September 27, 2012 [1 favorite]

In Japanese, 病毒 means something akin to "contagion" or "source of illness". Use of this word for "virus" is rare in Japanese; ウイルス is much more common.
posted by Tanizaki at 3:49 PM on September 27, 2012

Echoing the above. Colloquial referral to virus or other illness-causing contagion. (They usually write 細菌 for bacteria though, in case you're wondering.)
posted by Hakaisha at 3:52 PM on September 27, 2012