Chinese Character Wiki
疾

jí

illness

Original meaning: 

injury; wound

Depicts a person (大) being shot by an arrow (矢). The 大 component was later replaced with meaning component 疒. Based on the original meaning "injury; wound". The meaning of this character has shifted over time and now means "illness".

Components
疒 meaning component

疒  Meaning component

nè

  

sick

Originally 大, which depicted a person. Later replaced by meaning component 疒.

矢 iconic component

矢  Iconic component

shǐ

  

arrow

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

疾  

jí

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

疾

sickness

残疾

disabled

疟疾

malaria

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

嫉

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

嫉 蒺

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[dz]i[t]

dzit

jí

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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