Today’s #kanji is #病, which is made of the semantic element of #やまいだれ（疒） and the sound element of 丙, although the more common onyomi doesn’t come from that part. There are 4 official ways of reading 病 with their variant. Do you know them all?
Meaning: illness, sickness
Reading: ビョウ、ヘイ（ペイ）、や、やまい
病院（ビョウイン）: a hospital, a clinic
病気（ビョウキ）: a sickness, an illness, a disease
病弱（ビョウジャク）（な）: weekly, feeble, delicate, sickly
臆病（オクビョウ）（な）: cowardly, spineless, easily frightened, timid
心（シン）臓（ゾウ）病（ビョウ）: a heart disease, cardiopathy
疾病（シッペイ）: a disease; a malady
病（や）みつきになる: develop into a (consuming) passion; get addicted to…; develop an obsession with …
精神（セイシン）を病（や）む: to have emotional problems, to have a mental illness
病（やまい）は気（き）から: Care killed the cat. / Worry is often the cause of illness. / Illness originates in the mind./ The mind rules the body. (although I don’t believe any of these common English translations converys the meaning of 気 very well…)
恋（こい）の病（やまい）: lovesickness
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