# 病 — Sick

Frequency rank 342 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 光 (Light), less common than 格 (Status).

- On’yomi: びょう、へい
- Kun’yomi: や、やまい
- Radical: 疒 Sickness (Kangxi 104)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX

A sick (疒) person lies down while dynamite (丙) sits at their bedside — being ill feels like having an explosion inside your body.

In words:

- 病院 びょういん — hospital
- 病気 びょうき — illness
- 病 やまい — illness;disease

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