瘻
lòu

fistula

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangroːs
ro

說文解字

頸腫也。从疒婁聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

瘘 lòu fistula Simplified

Components

疒
疒 Meaning component
nè sick

sickness

娄
娄 Sound component
lóu, lǚ, lǘ surname

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode