痨病
láo​bìng

tuberculosis

痨 láo, lào consumption Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 疒 represents the meaning and 劳 represents the sound. Simplified form of 癆.

Components

疒
疒 Meaning component
nè sick
劳
劳 Sound component
láo labor

Sources

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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
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Baxter-Sagart
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Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

癆 consumption Traditional

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

Components

疒
疒 Meaning component
nè sick
勞
勞 Sound component
láo labor

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangraːw
raːw
raːws

說文解字

朝鮮謂藥毒曰癆。从疒勞聲。

Sources

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