paralysis

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
疒 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sick

卑 sound component

  Sound component

bēi

  

humble, inferior

Evolution

痺 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
痺 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

paralysis, numbness

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paralysis; numbness

Most common words with 痺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

麻痹

paralysis

paralysis

小儿麻痹症

poliomyelitis

麻痹大意

unwary

小儿麻痹

polio (poliomyelitis)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.0343% of movies

2981st most common character in movies

3391st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+75FA


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