瘵
zhài

a wasting disease

Components

疒
疒 Meaning component
nè sick

sickness

祭
祭 Sound component
jì, zhài sacrifice to

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsrɛjH[ts](ˤ)re[t]-ssuffer; distress
Zhengzhangʔsreːds

說文解字

病也。从疒祭聲。

Sources

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