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痢

diarrhea
Stroke count: 12

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Meanings

  1. diarrheaRtK
    海外に行くと必ず、時差ぼけと下痢に悩まされる。Whenever I go abroad, I suffer from jet lag and diarrhea.tatoeba
    下痢をしています。I have diarrhea.tatoeba
  1. diarrhoea

Popular Usage

下痢

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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sickness · hospital · profit · wheat (禾) · cereal (禾) · sword (刀) · sabre (刀) · saber (刀)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1821

Compound words

下痢止めです。
Here's some medicine for diarrhea.tatoeba
下痢をしています。
I have diarrhea.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.

難しい食事療法から、下痢の世話まで、二十四時間介護の日々が続いた。
むずかしいしょくじりょうほうから、げりのせわまで、にじゅうよんじかんかいごのひびがつづいた。From difficult dietary therapy to dealing with diarrhea, twenty-four-hour care continued.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

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12 strokes

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