The Japanese Radical: 疒


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Meaning
illness, disease    疒

Explanation A combination of ice 冫and building 广.

Used in these characters:
JLPT 4Joyo 3
sick, illness
yamu, yamai, BYŌ, HEI
Outside: sickness, disease 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick), below: No.3, third 丙 (One 一 outside and two λ inside 内 makes 3)
A disease where every third person gets sick.  
JLPT 2Joyo 6
pain, ache, hurt
itai/mu/meru, TSŪ
Top: sick 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick.), below: 甬 = bent person マ, use 用 (image of a fence)
The disease, when somebody is hanging bent over a fence causes pain.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
epidemic, plague
EKI, YAKU
Left: disease (An ice-冫cold building 广 makes sick), below: weapon 几 (battle axe) in a hand 又
A disease hitting like a weapon in a hand is an epidemic.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
illness, speed, quick, swift
SHITSU
Outside: illness 疒(An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes you sick.), below: arrow 矢 (an arrow ノ in the sky 天)
Illnesses caused by arrows are illnesses that come quickly.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
symptom (of an illness)
SHŌ
Outside: illness/disease 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick.), below: correct 正 (at the line 一 to stop 止 is correct)
A disease is correctly (determined) by the symptoms.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
foolish, stupid, silly
CHI
Outside: illness 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick.), inside: know 知 (The arrow 矢 hits the target 口, if it knows it.)
The disease in respect to "knowing" is to be stupid.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
pox, smallpox

Outside: illness 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick.), below: bean 豆 (one 一, pot 口 on a stand)
The disease that looks like beans is (small)pox.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
exhausted, tired, weary
tsukareru, HI
Outside: illness 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick.), below: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂)
A disease that shows at the skin is exhaustion and tiredness.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
habit, mannerism, peculiarity, trait
kuse, HEKI
Outside: illness 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick.), rest: anal penetration/torture 辟 (buttock from the side 尸, anus 口 with needle 辛 as symbol for penetration or torture)
Like a disease is anal penetration, when it becomes a habit.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
cure, heal
iyasu, YU
Left: illness 疒 (An ice 冫cold building 广 makes sick.), below: (Chinese only) transport 俞 (Cut something off the body 月/肉 with the knife 刂, put a lid on and ready for the transport.), heart 心
By the ambulance (= The sick person's transport) the heart was cured.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
diarrhea
RI
Outside: illness 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick.), below: profit 利 (When rice plant 禾 are cut with a knife刂 you make a profit.)
A disease that brings profit (to the doctor) is diarrhea.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
cure, heal
RYŌ
Outside: disease 疒, below: 尞 (big 大, out of 丷 [here fat legs], day 日, small 小)
When the disease of someone with fat legs is changed within one day into small [legs], that is: curing.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
traces, mark, vestige
ato, KON
Outside: illness/disease 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick.), below: not good 艮 ('good' would be 良, but here the accent 丶 is missing, thus 'not good')
The disease did not go well: You can still see its traces.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
be jealous, envy
SHITSU
Left: woman 女, right: illness, quick 疾 (The disease 疒 caused by an arrow 矢 is a quick illness.)
The woman has a disease, as if caused by an arrow: jealousy.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
get thin, get lean
yaseru,
Outside: illness/disease 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick.), below: speak/talk 申 (A mouth 口 with a big "plus" + for the outgoing surplus when talking.), hand 又 - Or right: old gentleman 叟 (He leans with the hands E 彐 on a stick 丨 that serves as a 3rd hand 又)
Of a disease we speak when even the hand gets thin. The illnes of the old gentleman is that he is emaciated.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
a swelling, carbuncle, boil (med.)

Left/top: illness 疒, below: var.of simple 易 (with sunrise 旦 instead of sun 日)
A disease that is rather simple is a swelling or carbuncle.  

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