癙

癙 U+7659, 癙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7659 ← 癘 [U+7658] CJK Unified Ideographs 癚 → [U+765A]

Translingual

Han character

癙 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 大竹難女 (KHXV), four-corner 0011₇, composition ⿸疒鼠)

1. ill

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 781, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22561
• Dae Jaweon: page 1191, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2699, character 20
• Unihan data for U+7659

Chinese

trad.		癙
simp. #		癙

Etymology

Schuessler (2007) suggests a relation to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *na-n/t (“ill, pain, sore, ache, difficult, evil spirit”), whence 儺 (OC nâi) "to expel demons of illness" (Analects), 難 (OC nân) "hard, difficult", Tibetan ན (na, “to be sick, ill”), ནད (nad, “disease, suffering”), སྣད་པ (snad pa, “to hurt, harm, injure”), Burmese နာ (na, “to suffer pain, to be ill”), နတ် (nat, “nat (spirit), evil spirit”), and reconstructs 癙 (*hljaʔ) as nhaʔ (though with uncertainty). 癙 (*hljaʔ)'s possible relation to *na-n/t functions as evidence for reconstructing initial n- for 鼠 (OC nhaʔ) in the same phonetic series.

STEDT, however, does not count 癙 (*hljaʔ) among *na-n/t's Chinese comparanda along with 難 (OC *n̥ʰaːn, *naːns) and 耐 (OC *nɯːs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shǔ (shu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syu²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shǔ
    • Wade–Giles: shu³
    • Yale: shǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuu
    • Palladius: шу (šu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: syu²
    • Yale: syú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sy²
    • Guangdong Romanization: xu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syː³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: syoX

Rime
Character	癙
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	舒吕切
Baxter	syoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨʌX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiɔX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiɔX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕɨə̆X/
Li Rong	/ɕiɔX/
Wang Li	/ɕĭoX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯woX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	syu2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[l̥]aʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljaʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	癙
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ syoX ›
Old Chinese	/*[l̥]aʔ/
English	hidden suffering
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	癙
Reading #	1/1
No.	11802
Phonetic component	鼠
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*hljaʔ/

Definitions

癙

1. (Shi) painful, suffering
2. depression

Compounds

• 癙憂／癙忧

 

References

• “癙”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

癙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. plague, Black Death
2. depression

Readings

• Go-on: しょ (sho)
• Kan-on: しょ (sho)
• Kan’yō-on: そ (so)
• Kun: きやみ (kiyami, 癙); ペスト (pesuto, 癙)