shàn

hernia

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
sick
Sound component
shān mountain

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsreːn
sraːns

說文解字

腹痛也。从疒山聲。

Sources

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