The Chinese Radical: 疒


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Meaning
sickness    疒

Explanation Similar radicals are building 广 or cliff .

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 2
sickness, illness, disease
bìng
Outside: illness/disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick.), below: third/C (one outside, two λ strokes inside makes 3)
This disease makes every third person sick.  
JLPT HSK 3
(it) hurts, ache, pain, sore
téng
Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick.), below: winter (With an upturned foot on the ice in the winter.)
A disease like winter: It hurts.  
JLPT HSK 3
thin, to lose weight, meager
shòu
Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick.), inside: old gentleman (.. he leans with the hands E on a stick that serves as a 3rd hand )
The sickness of the old gentleman is that he is meager.  
JLPT HSK 5
pain, ache, sorrow, deeply, thoroughly
tòng
Top: sick (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), below: (bent person , use [= A fence can be used])
The disease that a bent person has (when climbing) over a fence, is: pain.  
JLPT HSK 5
medical treatment, to cure, therapy
liáo
Left: disease (An ice- -cold building 广 makes sick.), right: past tense identifier, to fulfill (The still arm-less child should be completed.)
Turning the disease into 'history', means: treatment. - Or: The disease of the arm-less child , shall be treated.  
JLPT HSK 5
insane, mad, wild
fēng
Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), right: Wind 风/ (The insect is blown into the sail by the wind 风.)
The disease when you behave as fickle as the wind is: insanity.  
JLPT HSK 5
tired, weary, exhausted

Outside: illness (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick.), below: skin (A hand with a knife peels off the skin of that animal)
The 'disease' of the skin is the (visible) tiredness.  
JLPT HSK 5
to itch, to tickle
yǎng
Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick.), right: sheep (The horned animal with a backbone and laterally protruding due to thick wool 三 is the: sheep)
(woolen sweaters often itch) The disease, like with sheep's wool, is itchy.  
JLPT HSK 6
illness, disease, symptom
zhēng, zhèng
Outside: illness/disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), below: correct (To stop at the line is correct)
This disease is a correct/real disease.  
JLPT HSK 6
epidemic, plague

Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick.), below: (battle axe in a hand )
A disease striking like a "weapon in a hand", is: an epidemic.  
JLPT HSK 6
cancer, carcinoma
ái, yán
Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick.), inside: 嵒 (goods [here: scattered metastases], mountain )
The disease where the metastases are mountain-like is: cancer.  
JLPT HSK 6
sickness, disease, hate, envy, swift

Outside: illness (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick.), below: arrow (= An arrow in the sky )
A sickness caused by an arrow is a sickness, that comes swiftly.  
JLPT HSK 6
scar, traces
hén
Outside: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick.), below: not good ('good' would be , but here the accent is missing, thus 'not good')
The disease was not good, it left scars and traces.  
JLPT HSK 6
tumor
liú
Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick.), below: remain (The bent person with the sword shall on the field to remain)
The disease, where sth. remains, is a tumor.  
JLPT HSK 6
jealousy, be jealous of

Left: woman , right: illness/quick 疾 (The disease is arrow--like fast, because it makes sick quickly.)
This woman is sick of jealousy.  
JLPT HSK 6
paralyzed, limp
tān
Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick.), inside: difficult (by hand [to catch] a bird is difficult)
The disease, where you have difficulties, is when being paralyzed.  
JLPT HSK 6
scar

Left: sickness (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), right: hope (Behind the doorknob you may hope.)
At a disease you hope that it (only) results in a scar.  
JLPT HSK 6
disease, illness
huàn
Top: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), inside: (shows a woman giving birth; better recognizable in the traditional: 瘓 with head , two breasts ハ and spread legs )
The "disease" of woman giving birth, in general for: disease.  
JLPT HSK 6
addiction, craving, strong urge
yǐn
Left: disease (An ice-cold building 广 makes sick.), inside: conceal,hide 隐 (In the hill it was urgently hidden.)
A disease, that is hidden, is the addiction.  
JLPT HSK 6
to suffer (from illness), misfortune, worry
huàn
Top: chain (two pearls on a string ), below: heart
Like a chain around my heart, is how I suffer the illness.  
JLPT HSK 6
paralysis, numbness

Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick.), right: 畀 (Rice field , two hands without the upper parts)
The disease, when at the field's work the hands are (almost) missing: The paralysis.  
JLPT HSK 6
pimple, rash, wart, pustule, swelling of the skin

Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), right: to beg (There lies a disadvantaged [= from the second [=two ] class of society] and begs) [ = lying person ]
The disease of a lying beggar is: rash.  
JLPT HSK 6
eczema, swelling or lump on skin, pimple

Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), right: (plant , fit [the lid on the pot ])
The diseases, where plants are fitting (to cure) are eczema.  
JLPT HSK 6
crippled, lame
qué
Outside: disease (An ice- -cold building 广 makes sick.), inside: to add , body
The disease that looks like "adding body/flesh" is to be: crippled.  
JLPT no HSK
stupid, imbecile, sentimental, foolish, silly
chī
Outside: disease, illness (An ice -cold building 广 makes sick.), inside: to know (The arrow has a target , which it knows.)
The disease in respect to knowledge is to be: stupid.  
JLPT no HSK
convulsions, crazy, mentally deranged
diān
Outside: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), inside: apex, inverted 颠 (It is truely that the forehead 页 is the apex, where you return/inverte)
The disease, where you "inverte" are the convulsions of a crazy person.  
JLPT no HSK
phlegm, spittle
tán
Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), right: flame, inflammation (of a disease)
The disease in respect to (the missing inner) flame is: a phlegm.  
JLPT no HSK
skin ulcer, sore
chuāng
Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), inside: warehouse (Under the pointed roof is a roll of cloth in the warehouse)
The disease bulging on a slumped person is the: ulcer.  
JLPT no HSK
chronic disease, guilt, remorse
jiù
Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), right: long time 久
A disease over a long time is: chronic.  
JLPT no HSK
measles, rash, eczema
zhěn
Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), right: (person with hair [here: points])
The disease when the person gets points is measles.  
JLPT no HSK
infection, epidemic, plague, pestilence
wēn
Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), right: 昷 (variant of warm 温 = The water on a sunny plate becomes warm.)
(You get fever:) The disease of heat is: an infection.  
JLPT no HSK
ulcer, infection
yáng
Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), right: sun with sunrays (瘍 simplified to )
The disease that extends like with rays/shining is the: ulcer.  
JLPT no HSK
spasm, cramp
jìng
Left: disease , right: vertical (A hand is vertically above the ground )
The disease where the muscles arrange "vertically", is a spasm.  
JLPT no HSK
recover (from illness), be healed/cured
quán
Outside: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick.), inside: all (The person of the king means all.)
If during a disease the person feels like a king, he is recovered.  
JLPT no HSK
habit, hobby

Outside: illness (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick.), below: anal penetration, torture (buttock from the side , anus , needle as symbol for penetration or torture)
Like a disease is anal penetration if it becomes a habit.  
JLPT no HSK
scar, mark on the skin
bān
Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), right: manner, kind (Boat is built with a battle-axe / in hand in particular manner.)
A disease brings in certain manner also a scar.  
JLPT no HSK
hemorrhoid, piles
zhì
Left: disease (An ice- -cold building 广 makes sick.), right: temple (= Made of earth and built with skillful hands )
(caused by long sitting on cold stones?) The disease from the temple are the: hemorrhoids.  
JLPT no HSK
wart, nodule, clavus/corn
yóu
Left: disease (An ice- -cold building 广 makes sick.), right: outstanding (Despite the broken leg [=] the emphasis makes the big person outstanding.)
The disease of the big special person is a: wart/calvus .  
JLPT no HSK
deflated, shriveled, sunken, empty
biě
Left: disease (An ice- -cold building 广 makes sick.), right: self (The accented eye shows the own self.), (= + )
The disease, where you yourself change from a upright person to a sitting person , is being: deflated.  
JLPT no HSK
deficiency, blemish, flaw, defect

Left: disease (An ice- -cold building 广 makes sick.), right: this (He stopped and sat down: This person)
Whoever has the disease of always having to stop and sitting down has: a deficiency.  

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