癇

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See also: 痫
癇 U+7647, 癇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7647
← 癆
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 癈 →

Translingual

Han character

癇 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+12, 17 strokes, cangjie input 大日弓月 (KANB), four-corner 00127, composition ⿸疒閒)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 780, character 38
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22518
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1190, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2698, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+7647

Chinese

trad. 癇
simp. 痫
alternative forms 癎／𰣯
𤺛
𣩝
𣩞

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 癇
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (閒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
間 *kreːn, *kreːns
簡 *kreːnʔ
澗 *kreːns, *kraːns
鐧 *kreːns, *kraːns
蕑 *kreːn
覵 *kreːn, *kreːns, *pkrenʔ
襉 *kreːnʔ, *kreːns
僩 *kreːnʔ, *ɡraːnʔ
鬜 *kʰreːn, *kʰraːn, *kʰreːd
癇 *ɡreːn
瞯 *ɡreːn
憪 *ɡreːn, *ɡraːnʔ
橌 *ɡraːnʔ
撊 *ɡraːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡreːn) : semantic 疒 (“illness”) + phonetic 閒 (OC *ɡreːn).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 癇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 山 (73)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 戸閒切
Baxter hean
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦˠɛn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦᵚæn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦəɨn/
Li
Rong 		/ɣɛn/
Wang
Li 		/ɣæn/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ɣăn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xián
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		haan4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 癇
Reading # 1/1
No. 6240
Phonetic
component 		閒
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		閑
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡreːn/

Definitions

癇

  1. epilepsy

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

癇

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. convulsion
  2. epilepsy
  3. irritable

Readings

  • Go-on: げん (gen)←げん (gen, historical)
  • Kan-on: かん (kan)←かん (kan, historical)
  • Kun: ひきつけ (hikitsuke, 癇け)

Compounds

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