疾首

Chinese

		sickness; disease; hate sickness; disease; hate; envy	head; chief; first (occasion) head; chief; first (occasion); first (thing); measure word for poems
trad. (疾首)		疾	首
simp. #(疾首)		疾	首

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jíshǒu

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧˊ ㄕㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zat⁶ sau²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jíshǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˊ ㄕㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jíshǒu
    • Wade–Giles: chi²-shou³
    • Yale: jí-shǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyishoou
    • Palladius: цзишоу (czišou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi³⁵ ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zat⁶ sau²
    • Yale: jaht sáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzat⁹ sau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: zed⁶ seo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐt̚² sɐu̯³⁵/

Verb

疾首

1. (literary) to have a headache due to extreme infuriation; to hate bitterly

   假寐永嘆，維憂用老。心之憂矣，疢如疾首。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
   假寐永叹，维忧用老。心之忧矣，疢如疾首。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

   Jiǎmèi yǒng tàn, wéi yōu yòng lǎo. Xīn zhī yōu yǐ, chènrújíshǒu. [Pinyin]

   I lie down undressed, and sigh continually;
   Through my grief I am growing old.
   My heart is sad; -
   It puts me in pain like a headache.