# 痛 — Pain

Frequency rank 611 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Mid-frequency: not on every page, but regular in books and magazines.

More common than 退 (Retreat), less common than 末 (End).

- On’yomi: つう
- Kun’yomi: いた
- Radical: 疒 Sickness (Kangxi 104)
- Frequency path: Level V of XX

Under the sick radical on top, an elephant is being cut by a knife below -- a sick elephant with a knife wound is in terrible pain.

In words:

- 痛い いたい — painful
- 痛み いたみ — pain,ache,sore,grief,distress
- 痛む いたむ — to hurt;to feel a pain;to be injured

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