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痒

yǎng

variant of 癢|痒[yǎng]

Phonosemantic compound. 疒 represents the meaning and 羊 represents the sound. Simplified form of 癢.

Components
疒 meaning component

疒  Meaning component

nè

  

sick

羊 sound component

羊  Sound component

yáng

  

sheep

Evolution

痒 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
痒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
痒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

痒  

yǎng

variant of 癢|痒[yǎng]; to itch; to tickle

痒 (癢) 

yǎng

itch

Most common words with 痒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

痒

to itch

痒痒

to itch

瘙痒

to itch

发痒

to tickle

无关痛痒

not to affect sb

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ](r)aŋ

yang

yáng

disease; suffer

*s.[ɢ]aŋ

zjang

yáng

disease; harm


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.0708% of movies

2227th most common character in movies

2646th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

癢

Unicode

U+75D2

Shuowen

“痒，瘍也。从疒，羊聲。”


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