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疫

epidemic
Stroke count: 9

Readings

On readingエキ、ヤク

Meanings

  1. epidemicRtK
    進化とは快適な悪疫である。Progress is a comfortable disease.tatoeba
    私は天然痘に免疫になっている。I am immune to smallpox.tatoeba
  1. plague
  2. pestilence

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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sickness · hospital · cruise missile · missile · wind (風) · crotch

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1824

Compound words

私は天然痘に免疫になっている。
I am immune to smallpox.tatoeba
今ではみんな天然痘には免疫になっている。
Everybody is immune to smallpox nowadays.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

免疫を高めるためとか関係なく納豆を毎日食べてる
めんえきをたかめるためとかかんけいなくなっとうをまいにちたべてるI eat natto every day regardless of whether it boosts immunity or not.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

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Practice Writing

Practice Writing 疫

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step