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Kanji Detail for 病 - "illness, disease"

病

  • Meaning

    病 means "illness, disease." Also associated with to suffer.

    1. Illness - A state of poor health.

    2. Disease - A specific medical condition.

    3. Suffer - To experience pain or distress.

  • Words using 病

    • 病院 びょういん Listen hospital; clinic; doctor's office
    • 病気 びょうき Listen illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; sickness
    • 水俣病 みなまたびょう Listen Minamata disease
    • 糖尿病 とうにょうびょう Listen diabetes; diabetes mellitus
    • 白血病 はっけつびょう Listen leukemia; leukaemia
    • 病棟 びょうとう Listen (hospital) ward
    • 病状 びょうじょう Listen condition of a patient; state of a disease; pathology
    • 難病 なんびょう Listen serious disease; intractable disease; difficult-to-recover-from illness

  • Four-character idioms with 病

    • 一病息災 いちびょうそくさい Listen one who experiences a chronic ailment takes better care of his health and lives longer
    • 四百四病 しひゃくしびょう Listen every type of disease
    • 才子多病 さいしたびょう Listen talented people tend to be of delicate constitution; men of genius tend to be of delicate health; whom the gods love die young
    • 無病息災 むびょうそくさい Listen sound health
    • 生老病死 しょうろうびょうし Listen the four inevitables in human life (birth, aging, sickness, and death)

  • Tattoo check: 病

    • Verified meaning: illness, disease
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: to suffer
    • Traditionally considered inauspicious in names — Japanese readers may find it an unlucky choice. Check the meanings above carefully before using it on skin.

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    ill; sick

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    illness, sickness, disease

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    illness; CL:場|场[chang2]; disease; to fall ill; defect

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    sickness, illness, disease

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Severe illness. | To resent. Such as harboring resentment is called 病之. | To harm. Such as saying 妨賢病國 (obstructing the worthy and harming the state), 苛擾病民 (harsh disturbance harming the people) and such. | 詬病. Refers to matters taken as disgraceful. Being disliked and detested by others.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    byoh(ビョウ) ビョウ

    hei(ヘイ) ヘイ

  • Kunyomi

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    ya.mu(や-む) や-む

    yamai(やまい) やまい

    yami(やみ) やみ

  • Strokes

    tip

    10 strokes

  • Radical

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    疒 (yamaidare)

  • Related Keywords

    illness disease to suffer affliction flaw shortcoming sick sickness ailment condition diagnosis disorder distress epidemic infection malady medical medicine pain symptom treatment virus

Sentences including 病

  • He went so far as to say that i was coward.

  • I wonder if he's really sick?

  • It was because he was ill that he decided to return home.

  • He cannot come , he is ill.

  • I recovered from my illness.

  • I didn't go on account of illness.

  • He is not a patient but a doctor in this hospital.

  • Illness prevented me from going to his concert.

  • He worked and worked until he fell ill.

  • We saw the lady carried away to the hospital.

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