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    3. 病気

    病気

    病びょう気き

    illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold)

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    病氣

    びょうきビョーキ

    Noun

    1.
    illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold), disease, sickness
    2.
    bad habit, bad behaviour, weakness, failing

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    3.
    crazy, insane, disturbed, sick in the head
    colloquial

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    私わたしは病びょう気きです。

    I am sick.

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    彼かれは病びょう気きで学がっ校こうを休やすんだ。

    He was absent from school due to illness.

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    早そう期き発はっ見けんが病びょう気きの治ち療りょうには非ひ常じょうに重じゅう要ようだ。

    Early detection is very important for treating illness.

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    規き則そく正ただしい生せい活かつは病びょう気きの予よ防ぼうにつながる。

    A regular lifestyle leads to the prevention of illness.

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    彼かれの嘘うそをつく癖くせは一いっ種しゅの病びょう気きだ。

    His habit of lying is a kind of sickness (bad habit).

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    Kanji that make up this word

    病
    や.む・-や.み・やまい…(2)
    ill・sick
    気
    いき・き…(2)
    spirit・mind・air・atmosphere・mood
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