音読み: ビョウ
訓読み: やまい・やむ
画数: 10
部首: やまいだれ（疒）
Meaning
Illness / Sickness / Disease
- Basic forms
- 病む — to fall ill; to suffer from / base form
- 病みます — (someone) falls ill / masu form
- 病んだ — fell ill; suffered / ta form
- 病んで — suffering from; being ill and … / te-form
- 病まない — do not fall ill / negative
- 病めば — if (one) falls ill / conditional
- Common usage
- 病んでいる — is suffering from illness / state
- 気に病む — to worry; to fret over idiom
- Past & negative
- 病まなかった — did not fall ill / past negative
病む（やむ） is a godan verb ending in む. The stem alternates as む → み → ん, producing forms like 病みます・病んで・病んだ. In modern Japanese, 病む is most commonly used in set expressions such as 気に病む.
- 病気 — illness, sickness
- 病院 — hospital
- 病人 — patient
- 重病 — serious illness
- 急病 — sudden illness
- 仮病 — feigned illness
The left radical 疒 (やまいだれ) means "sickness" and appears in many kanji related to disease or medical conditions. The right side 丙 (へい) provides the phonetic component. Together, they form the idea of being ill.