sickness

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from a pictograph in oracle-bone script depicting a person lying down in bed or a patient at rest, expressing the concept of illness and bodily weakness.

Mnemonic: Remember the shape of a person lying down afflicted with sickness as the key to this "sickness" radical.

• 疒nè🔊

  sick

  5 strokes

• 疔dīng🔊

  boil

  7 strokes

• 疕bǐ🔊

  facial skin disease

  7 strokes

• 疖jiē🔊

  pimple

  7 strokes

• 疗liáo🔊

  to treat

  7 strokes

• 疙gē🔊

  pimple

  8 strokes

• 疚jiù🔊

  chronic disease

  8 strokes

• 疝shàn🔊

  hernia

  8 strokes

• 疟nüè🔊

  malaria

  8 strokes

• 疠lì🔊

  ulcer

  8 strokes

• 疡yáng🔊

  ulcers

  8 strokes

• 疯fēng🔊

  insane

  HSK 5

  9 strokes

• 疭zòng🔊

  used in 瘛瘲|瘛疭[chi4 zong4]

  9 strokes

• 疤bā🔊

  scar

  9 strokes

• 疣yóu🔊

  nodule

  9 strokes

• 疢chèn🔊

  (disease)

  9 strokes

• 疥jiè🔊

  scabies

  9 strokes

• 疧qí🔊

  (literary) disease

  9 strokes

• 疫yì🔊

  (bound form) epidemic; plague

  9 strokes

• 疬lì🔊

  used in 瘰癧|瘰疬[luo3 li4]

  9 strokes

• 疮chuāng🔊

  sore

  9 strokes

• 病bìng🔊

  illness

  HSK 1

  10 strokes

• 疼téng🔊

  (it) hurts; sore

  HSK 2

  10 strokes

• 症zhèng🔊

  disease

  10 strokes

• 痁diàn🔊

  malarial fever

  10 strokes

• 疾jí🔊

  (bound form) disease; ailment

  10 strokes

• 疱pào🔊

  pimple

  10 strokes

• 疲pí🔊

  weary

  10 strokes

• 疳gān🔊

  (TCM) chronic pediatric malnutrition disorder

  10 strokes

• 疴kē🔊

  (literary) disease

  10 strokes

• 疶xiè🔊

  dysentery

  10 strokes

• 疸dǎn🔊

  jaundice

  10 strokes

• 疹zhěn🔊

  measles

  10 strokes

• 疽jū🔊

  gangrene

  10 strokes

• 痂jiā🔊

  scab

  10 strokes

• 痄zhà🔊

  mumps

  10 strokes

• 痈yōng🔊

  carbuncle

  10 strokes

• 痉jìng🔊

  spasm

  10 strokes

• 痒yǎng🔊

  to itch

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 痕hén🔊

  scar

  11 strokes

• 痊quán🔊

  to recover (from illness)

  11 strokes

• 疵cī🔊

  blemish

  11 strokes

• 痌tōng🔊

  moaning in pain

  11 strokes

• 痍yí🔊

  bruise

  11 strokes

• 痎jiē🔊

  (archaic) tertian malaria

  11 strokes

• 痏wěi🔊

  a bruise or contusion

  11 strokes

• 痓chì🔊

  (TCM) wind-related disease characterized by spasms, convulsions and stiffness

  11 strokes

• 痔zhì🔊

  piles

  11 strokes