jiā

scab

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
疒 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sick

加 sound component

  Sound component

jiā

  

add

Evolution

痂 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
痂 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jiā

scab

Most common words with 痂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

scab

结痂

scab

疮痂

scab

痘痂

pockmark

嗜痂成癖

to have strange and dangerous addictions (idiom)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4897th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+75C2

Shuowen

“痂,疥也。从疒,加聲。”


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