Chinese

		to be schizophrenic	ailment; illness; disease ailment; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect
simp. and trad. (精神分裂病)		精神分裂	病

Noun

精神分裂病

1. (psychiatry) Alternative term for 精神分裂症 (jīngshén fēnlièzhèng, “schizophrenia”).

Japanese

Etymology

Compound of 精神 ‎(seishin, “mind, intellect; psyche”) +‎ 分裂 ‎(bunretsu, “split; break apart”) +‎ 病 ‎(byō, “disease, sickness, illness”). Coined in Japan in the Meiji period as a translation of German Schizophrenie.

The Japanese term 精神 ‎(seishin, “mind”) has overtones of reason or intellect in ordinary use, leading historically to some confusion regarding this diagnosis, as persons with schizophrenia do not necessarily exhibit any breakdown of intellect. The confusion ultimately led the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology to formally relabel the disease in 2002 as 統合失調症 ‎(tōgō shitchō shō, literally “comprehensive disharmony/imbalance disorder”).

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• (Tokyo) せいしんぶんれつびょう [sèéshíń búńrétsú byóó] (Heiban - [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [se̞ːɕĩm bɯ̃ᵝnɺ̠e̞t͡sɯᵝ bjo̞ː]

Noun

精神分裂病 ‎(hiragana せいしんぶんれつびょう, romaji seishin bunretsu byō)

1. (dated, potentially offensive) schizophrenia

Derived terms

• 精神分裂病患者 (せいしんぶんれつびょうかんじゃ, ​seishin bunretsu byō kanja): (dated, deprecated, potentially offensive) a schizophrene, a person suffering from schizophrenia

Synonyms

• 統合失調症 (とうごうしっちょうしょう, ​tōgō shitchō shō): the modern term for schizophrenia

References

1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9