癘

See also: 疠

癘 U+7658, 癘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7658 ← 癗 [U+7657] CJK Unified Ideographs 癙 → [U+7659]

Translingual

Han character

癘 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 大廿田月 (KTWB), four-corner 0012₇, composition ⿸疒萬)

1. sore, ulcer
2. pestilence

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 781, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22556
• Dae Jaweon: page 1191, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2696, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7658

Chinese

trad.		癘
simp.		疠
alternative forms		𱙯

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 癘
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (萬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
糲	*m·raːds, *m·rads, *m·raːd
犡	*m·raːds, *m·rads
噧	*hmreːds, *r̥ʰaːd
邁	*mraːds
勱	*mraːds
蠆	*m̥ʰraːds
厲	*m·rads
勵	*m·rads
礪	*m·rads
蠣	*m·rads
蠇	*m·rads
癘	*m·rads
濿	*m·rads
櫔	*m·rads
巁	*m·rads
贎	*m·rads, *mlans
萬	*mlans

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lì, lài (li⁴, lai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ, ㄌㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lai⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lì
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lì
    • Wade–Giles: li⁴
    • Yale: lì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lih
    • Palladius: ли (li)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lài
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lài
    • Wade–Giles: lai⁴
    • Yale: lài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lay
    • Palladius: лай (laj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /laɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lai⁶
    • Yale: laih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: lei⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐi̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: ljejH

Rime
Character	癘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	祭 (35)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	力制切
Baxter	ljejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liᴇiH/
Pan Wuyun	/liɛiH/
Shao Rongfen	/ljæiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/liajH/
Li Rong	/liɛiH/
Wang Li	/lĭɛiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/li̯ɛiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lai6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*m·rads/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	癘
Reading #	1/1
No.	12626
Phonetic component	萬
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	例
Old Chinese	/*m·rads/

Definitions

癘

1. epidemic; plague
2. sore; ulcer
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 癩 / 癞 (lài) when written by hand

Compounds

• 疫癘 / 疫疠 (yìlì)
• 疵癘 / 疵疠
• 瘴癘 / 瘴疠 (zhànglì)

Japanese

Kanji

癘

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. contagious disease
2. leprosy

Readings

• Go-on: らい (rai)
• Kan-on: れい (rei)
• Kun: えやみ (eyami, 癘)

Korean

Hanja

癘 • (ryeo>yeo) (hangeul 려>여, revised ryeo>yeo, McCune–Reischauer ryŏ>yŏ, Yale lye>ye)

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