Sunday, June 7, 2026

Amazing Chinese Characters (804) Radical Sickness - 疒

The big seal script of Radical Sickness is



The right is character Bed Board - 爿 (Post 635). Because there was no paper in shell bone script time, all characters were written on bamboo slips, which are very narrow, only about 8 mm wide. Therefore many character were written vertically to get enough room for long lines. 

The left is character Person (Post 37) with two long dots which are drops of sweat. A man is lying on the bed with sweating, implying that the man is very ill. It means sickness, illness, disease, disorder, etc. all minor or severe health problems. At that time, it was a character.

The big seal script of character Sickness is


The character Bed Board is on the left, the right top horizontal line is bed headboard. The person is disappeared, which may be due to the character has not been used alone long time ago, just to be a radical, called Sickness Head to indicate the character is related to sickness, illness, disease, disorder, etc.
 
The small seal script of Radical Sickness is

Similar to big seal script.
 
The clerical script of Radical Sickness is
The two horizontal Ts become two dots, a dot is added on the bed headboard with unknown reason.

The song typeface of Radical Sickness is 
 
Similar to clerical script.
 
The pinyin of 疒 is Ne4. 
 

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