Comments on: Decode these Chinese characters, please!

Question: Decode these Chinese characters, please!

greatgefilte — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:33:15 -0800

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!

By: tinymegalo

tinymegalo — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:38:15 -0800

I think that this says bing du which means virus.

By: Tanizaki

Tanizaki — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:49:51 -0800

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.

By: Hakaisha

Hakaisha — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:52:27 -0800

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.)