lài

leprosy

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
疒 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sick

赖 sound component

  Sound component

lài

  

depend on

Evolution

癞 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
癞 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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lài

leprosy, scabies, mange; shoddy; scabies; skin disease

Most common words with 癞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

癞蛤蟆

toad

scabies

癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉

lit. the toad wants to eat swan meat (idiom)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4225th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Traditional

Unicode

U+765E


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