宿疾
sù​jí

chronic ailment

宿 sù, xiǔ lodge, sleep overnight

Depicts a person (亻) sleeping on a bamboo mat (㐁) under a roof (宀).

Components

宀
宀 Iconic component
mián roof
亻
亻 Iconic component
rén person
㐁
㐁 Iconic component
tiàn a mat

Depicts a bamboo mat. Later corrupted to unrelated 百.


Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
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

Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

缩蓿縮

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsjuwk[s]uk spend the night
sjuwH[s]uk-s "mansion" of the zodiac (where the moon is found on successive nights)

說文解字

《說文》：“，止也。从宀，聲。，古文夙。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》p.597
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

疾 jí illness

Original meaning: injury; wound

Depicts a person (大) being shot by an arrow (矢). The 大 component was later replaced with meaning component 疒. Based on the original meaning "injury; wound". The meaning of this character has shifted over time and now means "illness".

Components

疒
疒 Meaning component
nè sick

Originally 大, which depicted a person. Later replaced by meaning component 疒.

矢
矢 Iconic component
shǐ arrow

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Qin 221-206 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
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

Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

嫉蒺

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

嫉

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdzit[dz]i[t] sickness

說文解字

《說文》：“疾，病也。从疒，矢聲。，古文疾。，籀文疾。”

Sources

Character origin
李学勤《字源》p.671
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)