患 means “illness, suffering”

かん · kan

Also: afflicted, disease, suffer from, be ill

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

わずらう

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

カン

JLPT N2 · Taught in secondary school · 11 strokes

The story

A skewer (串) run through the heart (心): picture a pain you cannot pull out. 患 is suffering from illness: a 患者 is a patient, 急患 an emergency case, and 疾患 the formal word for a disease.

Used in 患者 (kanja, patient), 疾患 (shikkan, disease), and 急患 (kyuukan, emergency patient)

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