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疾

jí
noun #15,710

Meanings

  1. 1 disease; illness; ailment
  2. 2 swift; rapid
  3. 3 to hate; to envy

Examples

HSK 3
预防疾病很重要。
Yùfáng jíbìng hěn zhòngyào.
Preventing disease is very important.
HSK 7-9
疾风知劲草。
Jífēng zhī jìngcǎo.
Strong winds reveal sturdy grass. (Adversity tests character.)

Tips

usage
疾病 = disease, 残疾 = disability, 疾驰 = to gallop. Note the 疒 radical for illness.

Components

radical
疒 nè
sickness; illness (radical)
Sickness radical - a person lying on a bed pushed onto its side. The indexing radical, putting 疾 in the disease family alongside 病 illness, 痛 pain, 疫 epidemic. All diseases live inside this leaning-bed frame.
semantic
矢 shǐ
arrow
Inside 矢 - pictograph of an arrow with feathered tail. Combined with the sickness frame it gives the original meaning "wound from an arrow" - an acute, sudden injury. From there came both "rapid, swift" (疾走 run fast, 疾驰 speed) and "disease, ailment" (疾病).

Stroke Order

疾 jí