láo

consumption

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
疒 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sick

劳 sound component

  Sound component

láo

  

labor

Evolution

痨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
痨 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
痨 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

láo

consumption; tuberculosis

Most common words with 痨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

tuberculosis

肺痨

tuberculosis

痨病

tuberculosis (TCM)

五痨七伤

(TCM) "five strains and seven impairments", five referring to the five viscera 五臟|五脏[wǔ​zàng], and seven to adverse effects on one's body as a result of: overeating (spleen), anger (liver), moisture (kidney), cold (lung), worry (heart), wind and rain (outer appearance) and fear (mind)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4886th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+75E8


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