病残
bìng​cán

disability

病 bìng illness

Phonosemantic compound. 疒 represents the meaning and 丙 represents the sound.

Components

疒
疒 Meaning component
nè sick
丙
丙 Sound component
bǐng third

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartbjaengH[b]raŋ-s extreme illness

說文解字

《說文》：“病，疾加也。从疒，丙聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

残 cán injure Simplified

Simplified form of 殘. Phonosemantic compound. 歹 represents the meaning and 戋 represents the sound.

Components

歹
歹 Meaning component
dǎi, è, dāi evil, bad
戋
戋 Sound component
jiān, cán small

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

殘 cán injure Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 歹 represents the meaning and 戔 represents the sound.

Components

歹
歹 Meaning component
dǎi, è, dāi evil, bad
戔
戔 Sound component
small

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdzan[dz]ˤa[n] damage; hurt; cruel

說文解字

《說文》：“殘，賊也。从歺，戔聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)