Question

疫 epidemic S 疒: trailing sickness; sick radical (no. 104)殳: pike; windy-again radical (no. 79) 疒 5 (none) epidemic SICKNESS / MISSILE ** Hint: True fact about biochemical warfare: in the medieval and ancient world, SICKNESS in the form of the corpses of those who had died from some EPIDEMIC or plague were often hurled at the enemy via the crude MISSILE launchers of the time. [C].

Accepted Answer

エキ、ヤク 1 1661 9 104 やまい・やまいだれ 形声 Phonetic Sickness-missiles are being engineered by bio-terrorists to spread epidemics all over the world. Imagine seeing footage of a place where those sickness-missiles are built : rows after rows of missiles, and if you look closely on each is inscribed in tiny letters the name of different sickness such as "flu", "plague", etc.

Kanji	疫
Onyomi	エキ、ヤク
English	epidemic
JLPT Level	1
Jouyou Grade	S
Frequency	1661
Components	疒: trailing sickness; sick radical (no. 104) 殳: pike; windy-again radical (no. 79)
Number of Strokes	9
Kanji Radical	疒
Radical Number	104
Radical Strokes	5
Radical Reading	やまい・やまいだれ
Traditional Form	(none)
Classification	形声 Phonetic
Keyword	epidemic
Koohii Story 1	Sickness-missiles are being engineered by bio-terrorists to spread epidemics all over the world. Imagine seeing footage of a place where those sickness-missiles are built : rows after rows of missiles, and if you look closely on each is inscribed in tiny letters the name of different sickness such as "flu", "plague", etc.
Koohii Story 2	SICKNESS / MISSILE ** Hint: True fact about biochemical warfare: in the medieval and ancient world, SICKNESS in the form of the corpses of those who had died from some EPIDEMIC or plague were often hurled at the enemy via the crude MISSILE launchers of the time. [C].

Epidemic Sickness Radical Sickness Missiles Rows Missile 疫 エキ、ヤク

Epidemic Sickness Radical Sickness Missiles Rows Missile 疫エキ、ヤク