癘

See also: 疠

癘	U+7658, 癘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7658

← 癗
[U+7657]

CJK Unified Ideographs

癙 →
[U+7659]

Translingual

Han character

癘 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 大廿田月 (KTWB), four-corner 0012₇, composition ⿸疒萬)

sore, ulcer
pestilence

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 781, character 27
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22556
Dae Jaweon: page 1191, character 6
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2696, character 3
Unihan data for U+7658

Chinese

trad.		癘
simp.		疠
alternative forms		𱙯

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 癘
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (萬) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
糲	m·raːds, m·rads, *m·raːd
犡	m·raːds, m·rads
噧	hmreːds, r̥ʰaːd
邁	*mraːds
勱	*mraːds
蠆	*m̥ʰraːds
厲	*m·rads
勵	*m·rads
礪	*m·rads
蠣	*m·rads
蠇	*m·rads
癘	*m·rads
濿	*m·rads
櫔	*m·rads
巁	*m·rads
贎	m·rads, mlans
萬	*mlans

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lì, lài (li⁴, lai⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ, ㄌㄞˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lai⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lì
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lì
  - Wade–Giles: li⁴
  - Yale: lì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lih
  - Palladius: ли (li)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lài
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄞˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lài
  - Wade–Giles: lai⁴
  - Yale: lài
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lay
  - Palladius: лай (laj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /laɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: lai⁶
  - Yale: laih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lai⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: lei⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐi̯²²/

Middle Chinese: ljejH

Rime
Character	癘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	祭 (35)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	力制切
Baxter	ljejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liᴇi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/liɛi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ljæi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/liaj^H/
Li Rong	/liɛi^H/
Wang Li	/lĭɛi^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/li̯ɛi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lai⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*m·rads/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	癘
Reading #	1/1
No.	12626
Phonetic component	萬
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	例
Old Chinese	/*m·rads/

Definitions

癘

epidemic; plague
sore; ulcer
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 癩 / 癞 (lài) when written by hand^[1]

Compounds

疫癘 / 疫疠 (yìlì)
疵癘 / 疵疠
瘴癘 / 瘴疠 (zhànglì)

References

^ Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02709

Japanese

Kanji

癘

(Hyōgai kanji)

contagious disease
leprosy

Readings

Go-on: らい (rai)
Kan-on: れい (rei)
Kun: えやみ (eyami, 癘)

Korean

Hanja

癘 • (ryeo>yeo) (hangeul 려>여, revised ryeo>yeo, McCune–Reischauer ryŏ>yŏ, Yale lye>ye)

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