病やまい
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Meanings
Noun
1. illness; disease
2. bad habit; weakness; fault
Kanji used
Pitch accent
やまい
Used in vocabulary
作つくり病やまい
feigned illness
Noun
病やまい垂だれ
illness radical
Noun
死しに至いたる病やまい
deadly disease; sickness leading to death; terminal illness
Expression
Examples7
John's grandmother passed away after a long illness.
Care killed a cat.
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illness.
A qilin with a king too has no limit on its lifespan, but this illness alone admits of no remedy.
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing.
These infections were caused by contaminated milk.