paralysis

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
sick
Sound component
bēi humble, inferior

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangpe

Sources

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