illness

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
疒 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sick

矢 sound component

  Sound component

shǐ

  

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Evolution

疾 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
疾 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
疾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
疾 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
疾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

illness, disease, sickness; to hate; sickness; disease; hate; envy; swift

Most common words with 疾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

疾病

disease

残疾人

disabled person

sickness

残疾

disabled

疟疾

malaria

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[dz]i[t]

dzit

sickness


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 13.0386% of movies

1764th most common character in movies

1273rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+75BE

Shuowen

“疾,病也。从疒,矢聲。,古文疾。,籀文疾。”


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