ulcer

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
sick
Sound component
qiě moreover

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰa

說文解字

癰也。从疒且聲。

Sources

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