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疫 = 殳 + 疒

疫 is a Japanese kanji written with 9 strokes, listed here under the keyword “epidemic”. It is built from 殳 (weapon) and 疒 (sickness radical). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 1824.

Keyword
epidemic
RTK frame
1824
Strokes
9
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
エキ, ヤク
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
эпидемия
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
疫 epidemic

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 殳 weapon
  2. 疒 sickness radical

How to find 疫 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “weapon” + “sickness radical”. 疫 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

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