疚 jiù chronic disease Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 疒 represents the meaning and 久 represents the sound. Components 疒 疒 Meaning component nè sick 久 久 Sound component jiǔ long time (ago) Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangkʷlɯs Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang