癩

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See also: 癞
癩 U+7669, 癩
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7669
← 癨
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 癪 →
癩 U+F90E, 癩
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F90E
← 懶
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 羅 →

Translingual

Han character

癩 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+16, 21 strokes, cangjie input 大木中金 (KDLC), four-corner 00186, composition ⿸疒賴)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 782, character 41
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22622
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1192, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2703, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+7669

Chinese

trad. 癩
simp. 癞

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (賴) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
賴 *raːds
籟 *raːds
癩 *raːds, *raːd
瀨 *raːds
藾 *raːds
攋 *raːds, *reːdʔ, *raːd
懶 *raːnʔ
嬾 *raːnʔ
獺 *r̥ʰaːd, *hr'aːd

Pronunciation

Note:
  • lāi - literary;
  • thái - vernacular (俗).
Rime
Character 癩 癩
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 來 (37) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 泰 (25) 曷 (63)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 落蓋切 盧達切
Baxter lajH lat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/lɑiH/ /lɑt̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/lɑiH/ /lɑt̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/lɑiH/ /lɑt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lajH/ /lat̚/
Li
Rong 		/lɑiH/ /lɑt̚/
Wang
Li 		/lɑiH/ /lɑt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/lɑiH/ /lɑt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lài là
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		laai6 laat6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 癩 癩
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 7633 7641
Phonetic
component 		賴 賴
Rime
group 		祭 月
Rime
subdivision 		1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		賴 剌
Old
Chinese 		/*raːds/ /*raːd/

Definitions

癩

  1. leprosy
  2. (regional) favus, especially of the scalp
  3. coarse; uneven; rough

Compounds

Descendants

  • ⇒ Tangwang: lɛ²⁴ > lɛ²⁴pa⁴⁴xa⁴²

Japanese

Kanji

癩

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. leprosy
    Synonyms: 厲, 癘

Readings

  • Go-on: らい (rai)←らい (rai, historical)
  • Kan-on: らい (rai)←らい (rai, historical)
  • Kun: かったい (kattai, 癩)

Compounds

Etymology 1

From Middle Chinese 癩 (MC lajH).

Pronunciation

Noun

癩(らい) • (rai) 

  1. (dated, derogatory) leprosy
    Synonyms: (common) ハンセン病 (Hansen-byō), (dated, derogatory) 癩病 (raibyō)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
癩
かったい
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 癩 – see the following entry.
【乞丐かったい】
(archaic, derogatory) leprosy
beggar
(derogatory) idiot, fool
(This term, 癩, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

  1. ^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

癩 • (ra>na) (hangeul 라>나, revised ra>na, McCune–Reischauer ra>na, Yale la>na)

  1. hanja form? of 나 (“leprosy”)

Vietnamese

Han character

癩: Hán Nôm readings: lại, cùi, lầy

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