病
illness; ill; sick
10 strokes. Taught in grade 3. Newspaper frequency rank 384.
Readings
- ビョウ (on reading): 病気 (びょうき) illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); 病院 (びょういん) hospital
- やむ (kun reading): 病む (やむ) to fall ill; 病める (やめる) sick
- やまい (kun reading): 病 (やまい) illness; 病は気から (やまいはきから) sickness and health start with the mind
- ヘイ (on reading): 疾病 (しっぺい) illness; 疾病対策センター (しっぺいたいさくセンター) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- やみ (kun reading): 病み上がり (やみあがり) convalescence; 病みつき (やみつき) being addicted to
- Read as a whole word: 病葉 (わくらば) blighted leaves
Components
Words using 病
- 病気 (びょうき) illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold)
- 病院 (びょういん) hospital
- 病 (びょう) disease
- 病人 (びょうにん) sick person
- 病死 (びょうし) death from disease
- 病む (やむ) to fall ill
- 病める (やめる) sick
- 肺を病む (はいをやむ) to suffer from tuberculosis
- 胸を病む (むねをやむ) to become consumptive
- 苦に病む (くにやむ) to worry (about)
- 病 (やまい) illness
- 病は気から (やまいはきから) sickness and health start with the mind
- 作り病 (つくりやまい) feigned illness
- 恋病 (こいやまい) lovesickness
- 病と称する (やまいとしょうする) to feign illness
- 疾病 (しっぺい) illness
- 疾病対策センター (しっぺいたいさくセンター) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- 公務疾病 (こうむしっぺい) sickness incurred in line of duty
- 三大疾病 (さんだいしっぺい) three major diseases (cancer, cerebral stroke, acute myocardial infarction)
- 疾病保険 (しっぺいほけん) sickness insurance
- 病み上がり (やみあがり) convalescence
- 病みつき (やみつき) being addicted to
- 病み垢 (やみアカ) social media account that only posts negative things
- 病み惚ける (やみほうける) to become senile due to illness
- 疫病みの神 (えやみのかみ) god of pestilence
- 病葉 (わくらば) blighted leaves
- 火病 (ファビョン) hwabyeong (Korean somatization disorder arising from repressed anger)
580 words in all.