Chinese Character Wiki

痿

wěi

paralysis

Phonosemantic compound. 疒 represents the meaning and 委 represents the sound.

Components
疒 meaning component

疒  Meaning component

nè

  

sick

委 sound component

委  Sound component

wěi, wēi

  

bent, winding

Evolution

痿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
痿 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

痿  

wěi

paralysis; impotence; atrophy

Most common words with 痿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

阳痿

(med.) impotence

痿

atrophy

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4653rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+75FF

Shuowen

“痿，痹也。从疒，委聲。”


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