疠
lì

a sore

Ten thousand 万 sick people 疒

Components

疒
疒 Meaning component
nè sick
万
万 Meaning component
wàn ten thousand

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

癘 a sore Traditional

Ten thousand 萬 sick people 疒

Components

疒
疒 Meaning component
nè sick
萬
萬 Meaning component
wàn ten thousand

Character Evolution

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 Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangm·rads
Unicodeliɛ̀i

說文解字

惡疾也。从疒，蠆省聲。

Sources

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