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Kanji Detail for 疾 - "disease"

疾

  • Meaning

    疾 means "disease." Also associated with to suffer, flaw.

    1. Disease - Illness; sickness.

    2. To suffer - To be troubled; to worry; to be anxious.

    3. Flaw - Defect; bad habit; wound.

    4. To hate - To envy; to resent.

    5. Fast - Quick; swift; intense.

    6. Quickly - Rapidly; intensely.

  • Words using 疾

    • 疾患 しっかん Listen disease; illness; disorder
    • 疾病 しっぺい Listen illness; disease

  • Four-character idioms with 疾

    • 大声疾呼 たいせいしっこ Listen shout with a loud voice; fulminate; vociferate
    • 疾痛惨憺 しっつうさんたん Listen terrible worry; extreme anxiety
    • 疾風怒濤 しっぷうどとう Listen storm and stress; Sturm und Drang
    • 疾風迅雷 しっぷうじんらい Listen with lightning speed

  • Tattoo check: 疾

    • Verified meaning: disease
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read つぎお, つぎまさ, つぐお)
    • Also carries these associations: to suffer, flaw

    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.

  • Name readings of 疾

    Surnames 疾(つぎお)Listen 疾(つぎまさ)Listen 疾(つぐお)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    rapidly

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    illness, disease, sickness; to hate

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    (bound form) disease; ailment; (bound form) swift; (literary) to hate; to abhor

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    sickness, illness, disease; to envy, to hate

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

    When the body is not in harmony and comfortable, all is called 疾. Severe illness is called 病. | Suffering. Such as harsh oppression harming the people is called 民疾 (people's ailment). | Anger. (Mencius) "That one grasping his sword angrily." 疾視 means to look with angry eyes. | To hate. (Analects) "One who is not humane. To hate him too excessively." | Swift. (Analects) "Not speaking hastily."

  • Onyomi

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    shitsu(シツ) シツ

  • Kunyomi

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    haya.i(はや-い) はや-い

  • Strokes

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    10 strokes

  • Radical

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    疒 (yamaidare)

  • Related Keywords

    disease to suffer flaw fast quick swift suffering pain injury harm hatred jealousy habit vice illness ailment disorder sickness malady defect haste

Sentences including 疾

  • The ship scudded before a heavy gale.

  • She suffers from a chronic illness.

  • The cause of this illness is stress.

  • Malaria is a disease that mosquitoes carry.

  • Some diseases are caused by a defective gene.

  • A truck was careering along the road.

  • Chicken pox is a common childhood disease.

  • And then, on the final turn, he began to sprint at full speed.

  • It seems that it's impossible to distinguish an obsessional neurosis from an intense love from a biochemical perspective.

  • Genetic analysis can be useful in predicting the likelihood of cancer and other diseases.

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