Meanings
Readings
Common Words
Common noun
illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; sickness
Common noun
bad habit; bad behaviour; weakness; failing
Colloquial; Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
crazy; insane; disturbed; sick in the head
hospital; clinic; doctor's office; doctor's surgery; infirmary
illness; disease
bad habit; weakness; fault
cowardly; timid; easily frightened
sick person; patient; invalid
nursing (a patient)
to fall ill; to be taken ill
sickroom; hospital room; ward
Intransitive verb
to fall ill
Transitive verb
to suffer from (e.g. a disease); to have something wrong with (e.g. an inner organ)
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