痾

See also: 疴

痾	U+75FE, 痾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-75FE

← 痽
[U+75FD]

CJK Unified Ideographs

痿 →
[U+75FF]

Translingual

Han character

痾 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 大弓中口 (KNLR), four-corner 0012₁, composition ⿸疒阿)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 775, character 32
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22289
Dae Jaweon: page 1186, character 16
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2677, character 6
Unihan data for U+75FE

Chinese

trad.		痾/疴
simp.		疴

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (可) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
砢	*ɡ·raːlʔ
柯	*kaːl
菏	kaːl, ɡaːl
牁	*kaːl
滒	*kaːl
哥	*kaːl
歌	*kaːl
謌	*kaːl
鴚	*kaːl
哿	*kaːlʔ
舸	*kaːlʔ
笴	kaːlʔ, kaːnʔ
軻	kʰaːl, kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls
珂	*kʰaːl
可	*kʰaːlʔ
岢	*kʰaːlʔ
坷	kʰaːlʔ, kʰaːls
蚵	kʰaːls, ɡaːl
呵	qʰaːl, qʰaːls
訶	*qʰaːl
抲	*qʰaːl
荷	qʰaːls, ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ
何	ɡaːl, ɡaːlʔ
河	*ɡaːl
苛	*ɡaːl
魺	*ɡaːl
袔	*ɡaːls
阿	*qaːl
妸	qaːl, qaːlʔ
疴	qaːl, kʰraːls
鈳	*qaːl
娿	qaːl, qaːlʔ
痾	*qaːl
跒	*kʰraːlʔ
閜	*qʰraːlʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qaːl): semantic 疒 (“sickness”) + phonetic 阿 (OC *qaːl).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): kē, ē

(Zhuyin): ㄎㄜ, ㄜ
Cantonese (Jyutping): o¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland; variant in Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: kē
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄜ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ke
  - Wade–Giles: kʻo¹
  - Yale: kē
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ke
  - Palladius: кэ (kɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɤ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan; variant in Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ē
  - Zhuyin: ㄜ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: e
  - Wade–Giles: o¹
  - Yale: ē
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: e
  - Palladius: э (e)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: o¹
  - Yale: ō
  - Cantonese Pinyin: o¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: o¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔː⁵⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Middle Chinese: 'a

Rime
Character	痾
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	烏何切
Baxter	'a
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔa/
Li Rong	/ʔɑ/
Wang Li	/ɑ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ē
Expected Cantonese Reflex	o¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*qaːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	痾
Reading #	1/1
No.	7473
Phonetic component	可
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	阿
Old Chinese	/*qaːl/
Notes	亦作

Definitions

痾

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) illness; sickness; disease
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) weakness; defect
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) old grudge
alternative form of 屙 (ē, “to excrete; to have diarrhea”)
(chiefly Taiwan) alternative form of 呃 (“interjection said when hesitating in speech”)

Compounds

不通痾癢 / 不通疴痒
喝風痾煙 / 喝风疴烟
宿痾 / 宿疴
愆痾 / 愆疴
獨吃自痾 / 独吃自疴
痾沉 / 疴沉
養痾 / 养疴

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02772
“痾”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

痾

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Go-on: あ (a)
Kan-on: あ (a)
Kun: やまい (yamai, 痾)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
痾
あ Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 痾 (MC 'a).

Affix

痾(あ) • (a)

illness; disease