severe

Components

Meaning component
sick

sickness

Sound component
lá, là cut, slash

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangraːd

說文解字

楚人謂藥毒曰痛瘌。从疒剌聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica