毛病

Chinese

		hair; fur; one tenth of a yuan or dollar	ailment; illness; disease ailment; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect
simp. and trad. (毛病)		毛	病

Etymology

“Defects in a horse's hair” (Song dynasty) > “fault; defect; problem; disease” (Song dynasty).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): máobìng

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˊ ㄅㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴ beng⁶

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mô-phiang
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): mô͘-pīⁿ / mô͘-pēⁿ / mâu-pīⁿ / mô͘-pēng / mâu-pēng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): mao⁵ bên⁷

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶mo-bin

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: máobìng → máobing (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˊ ㄅㄧㄥˋ → ㄇㄠˊ ˙ㄅㄧㄥ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: máobi̊ng
    • Wade–Giles: mao²-ping⁵
    • Yale: máu-bing
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mau.binq
    • Palladius: маобин (maobin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑʊ̯³⁵ piŋ⁵¹/ → /mɑʊ̯³⁵ b̥iŋ³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁴ beng⁶
    • Yale: mòuh behng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴ beng⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴ béng⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹ pɛːŋ²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mô-phiang
    • Hakka Romanization System: mo^ˊ piang
    • Hagfa Pinyim: mo¹ piang⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /mo²⁴⁻¹¹ pʰi̯aŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mô͘-pīⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: môo-pīnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mo'pvi
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /mɔ̃²⁴⁻²² pĩ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /mɔ̃²⁴⁻²² pĩ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /mɔ̃²⁴⁻¹¹ pĩ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mô͘-pēⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: môo-pēnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mo'pve
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /mɔ̃¹³⁻²² pɛ̃²²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /mɔ̃²³⁻³³ pẽ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mâu-pīⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: mâu-pīnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mau'pvi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /mãu²⁴⁻²² pĩ²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mô͘-pēng
    • Tâi-lô: môo-pīng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mo'peng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /mɔ̃²⁴⁻²² piɪŋ²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /mɔ̃²⁴⁻²² piɪŋ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mâu-pēng
    • Tâi-lô: mâu-pīng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mau'peng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /mãu²⁴⁻²² piɪŋ²²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /mãu¹³⁻²² piɪŋ²²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mao⁵ bên⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mâu pēⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mau⁵⁵⁻¹¹ pẽ¹¹/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶mo-bin
    • MiniDict: mo^去 bin
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³mo-bin
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /mo²² bin⁴⁴/

Noun

毛病

1. (literary, obsolete) defects in a horse's hair; abnormality in the fur colour of domestic animals
2. fault; defect; breakdown; trouble; mishap
3. personal flaw; shortcoming

   有毛病啊！  ―  Yǒumáobìng a!  ―  What the hell is wrong with you!

4. (chiefly regional) illness; medical problem; condition; disease; ailment

   我有毛病了。 [Shanghainese, trad. and simp.]

   ⁶ngu ⁶yeu ⁶mo-bin leq [Wugniu]

   I am sick.

Synonyms

• (flaw):

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• 弊害 (bìhài)
• 弊病 (bìbìng)
• 弊端 (bìduān)
• 欠缺 (qiànquē)
• 短處 / 短处 (duǎnchu)
• 缺失 (quēshī)
• 缺欠 (quēqiàn)
• 缺陷 (quēxiàn)
• 缺點 / 缺点 (quēdiǎn)
• 陷 (xiàn) (literary, or in compounds)

 

Derived terms

• 出毛病 (chūmáobìng)
• 挑毛病
• 有毛病 (yǒu máobìng)
• 生毛病
• 老毛病 (lǎomáobìng)