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Kanji Detail for 患 - "suffer, illness, worry"

患

  • Meaning

    患 means "suffer, illness, worry."

    1. Suffer - To experience pain or illness.

    2. Illness - A disease or sickness.

    3. Worry - To be anxious about.

  • Words using 患

    • 患者 かんじゃ Listen patient
    • 疾患 しっかん Listen disease; illness; disorder
    • 患う わずらう Listen to be ill; to suffer from

  • Four-character idioms with 患

    • 内憂外患 ないゆうがいかん Listen troubles both at home and abroad

  • Tattoo check: 患

    • Verified meaning: suffer, illness, worry
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • 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

    afflicted; disease; suffer from; be ill

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    suffer, worry about; suffering

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune; trouble; danger; worry

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    suffering; misfortune; trouble; to suffer

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

    Worry. Such as 患得患失. See (Analects). | Disaster. Such as 有備無患. | Illness. Such as 患病.

  • Onyomi

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    kan(カン) カン

  • Kunyomi

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    wazura.u(わずら-う) わずら-う

  • Strokes

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    11 strokes

  • Radical

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    心 忄 (kokoro・shitagokoro・risshimben)

  • Related Keywords

    suffer illness worry affliction adversity agony ailment anguish anxious condition discomfort disease disorder distress hardship malady misery pain problem sickness trouble

Sentences including 患

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

  • There is no one to attend to that patient.

  • Give medicine to the patient right away.

  • I want to be that doctor's patient.

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