病気

びょうき
illness

Reading

Readingびょうき
N5 VocabJLPT N5
Kanji病気

Meanings

  1. illness
  1. illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold)n.
  2. disease
  3. sickness
  4. bad habitn.
  5. bad behaviour
  6. weakness
  7. failing
  8. crazyadj-のcolloq.
  9. insane
  10. disturbed
  11. sick in the head

Synonyms

疾患疾病病

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.

私は病気で五六日引きこもっていましたが、その間に、だいぶこの国の言葉を勉強しました。
わたしはびょうきでごろくにちひきこもっていましたが、そのかんに、だいぶこのくにのことばをべんきょうしました。I was holed up due to illness for five or six days, and during that time I studied this country's language quite a bit.
あなたは流感になりかけているか、もっと重い病気かもしれません。
あなたはりゅうかんになりかけているか、もっとおもいびょうきかもしれません。You might be catching the flu or something worse.
父は明らかに自分の病気を恐れていた。
ちちはあきらかにじぶんのびょうきをおそれていた。Father was clearly afraid of his own illness.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

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Practice Writing

Practice Writing 病気

The whole word, one canvas per character — with a guide, then twice from memory, every character checked