# 癙

| 癙 | U+7659, &#30297; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7659 |
| ← 癘 [U+7658] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 癚 → [U+765A] |

## Translingual
### Han character

癙 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 大竹難女 (KHXV), four-corner 0011$_7$, composition ⿸疒鼠)
* ill

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 781, character 32
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22561
* Dae Jaweon: page 1191, character 9
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2699, character 20
* Unihan data for U+7659

## Chinese
### Etymology

Schuessler (2007) suggests a relation to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *na-n/t (“ill, pain, sore, ache, difficult, evil spirit”), whence 儺 (OC nâi) "to expel demons of illness" (Analects), 難 (OC nân) "hard, difficult", Tibetan ན (na, “to be sick, ill”), ནད (nad, “disease, suffering”), སྣད་པ (snad pa, “to hurt, harm, injure”), Burmese နာ (na, “to suffer pain, to be ill”), နတ် (nat, “nat (spirit), evil spirit”), and reconstructs 癙 (*hljaʔ) as nhaʔ (though with uncertainty). 癙 (*hljaʔ)'s possible relation to *na-n/t functions as evidence for reconstructing initial n- for 鼠 (OC nhaʔ) in the same phonetic series.
STEDT, however, does not count 癙 (*hljaʔ) among *na-n/t's Chinese comparanda along with 難 (OC *n̥ʰaːn, *naːns) and 耐 (OC *nɯːs).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shǔ (shu$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): syu$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shǔ
*** Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shǔ
*** Wade–Giles: shu$^3$
*** Yale: shǔ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuu
*** Palladius: шу (šu)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂu²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: syu$^2$
*** Yale: syú
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sy$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xu$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /syː³⁵/
* Middle Chinese: syoX
Rime :
| Character | 癙 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 書 (26) |
| Final (韻) | 魚 (22) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 舒吕切 |
| Baxter | syoX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɕɨʌ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɕiɔ$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ɕiɔ$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɕɨə̆$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /ɕiɔ$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /ɕĭo$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ɕi̯wo$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | shǔ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | syu$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[l̥]aʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*hljaʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 癙 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | shǔ |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ syo$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[l̥]aʔ/ |
| English | hidden suffering |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 癙 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11802 |
| Phonetic component | 鼠 |
| Rime group | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | |
| Old Chinese | /*hljaʔ/ |

### Definitions

癙
* (Shi) painful, suffering
* depression

#### Compounds

* 癙憂／癙忧

### References

* “癙”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* plague, Black Death
* depression

#### Readings

* Go-on: しょ (sho)
* Kan-on: しょ (sho)
* Kan’yō-on: そ (so)
* Kun: きやみ (kiyami, 癙)、ペスト (pesuto, 癙)