痢

diarrhea

Stroke count: 12

Readings

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Jōyō Grade 8KANJIDIC

Meanings

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

Popular Usage

Radicals and components

Radical疒sickness

Components

How it's built

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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

diarrhea; diarrhoea

赤痢せきり

疫痢えきり

children's dysentery

赤痢菌せきりきん

shigella (dysentery bacillus)

瀉痢塩しゃりえん

下痢止めげりどめ

細菌性赤痢さいきんせいせきり

旅行者下痢りょこうしゃげり

traveler's diarrhea

アメーバ赤痢アメーバせきり

amoebic dysentery

アメーバー赤痢アメーバせきり

amoebic dysentery

Additional Examples

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

Stroke Order

12 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 痢

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