痛み
いたみ · itami · JLPT N3 · noun
pain
🩹 itami sounds like it hurt me; 疒 on top is the sickness radical
痛 carries 疒, the sickness radical also found in 病 (illness) and 疲 (tired). The adjective 痛い itai is what Japanese speakers say for ouch! Swap the final い for み and you get the noun: the pain itself.
痛 — sickness radical 疒 + 甬 (yǒng, phonetic)
痛 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The 疒 radical depicts a person on a sickbed and signals illness or pain. The component 甬 supplies the sound, historically close to 'tòng'. Together they convey bodily ache, later extended to emotional pain and the adverbial sense 'thoroughly'.