feel tired

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
疒 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sick

皮 sound component

  Sound component

  

skin

Evolution

疲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
疲 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

feel tired, be exhausted; weak; weary

Most common words with 疲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

疲劳

fatigue

疲惫

beaten

疲倦

to tire

weary

精疲力尽

drained

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b](r)aj

bje

weary, exhausted


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.8212% of movies

1973rd most common character in movies

1778th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+75B2

Shuowen

“疲,勞也。从疒,皮聲。”


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