| 辨别 | [ biàn bié ] to differentiate, to distinguish, to discriminate |
| 辨别力 | [ biàn bié lì ] discrimination, power of discrimination |
| 辨认 | [ biàn rèn ] to recognize, to identify |
| 辨证 | [ biàn zhèng ] to investigate |
| 辨证施治 | [ biàn zhèng shī zhì ] diagnosis and treatment based on an overall analysis of the illness and the patient's condition |
| 辨证论治 | [ biàn zhèng lùn zhì ] holistic diagnosis and treatment (TCM) |
| 辨识 | [ biàn shí ] identification, to identify, to recognize |
| ⇒ 不辨菽麦 | [ bù biàn shū maì ] lit. cannot tell beans from wheat (idiom); fig. ignorant of practical matters |
| ⇒ 八纲辨证 | [ bā gāng biàn zhèng ] pattern-syndrome identification based on the eight principles (TCM) |
| ⇒ 真假难辨 | [ zhēn jiǎ nán biàn ] hard to distinguish real from imitation |
| ⇒ 真伪莫辨 | [ zhēn weǐ mò biàn ] can't judge true or false (idiom); unable to distinguish the genuine from the fake, not to know whether to believe (what one reads in the news) |