痟

痟 U+75DF, 痟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-75DF ← 痞 [U+75DE] CJK Unified Ideographs 痠 → [U+75E0]

Translingual

Han character

痟 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 大火月 (KFB), four-corner 0012₇, composition ⿸疒肖)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 774, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22208
• Dae Jaweon: page 1184, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2675, character 2
• Unihan data for U+75DF

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 痟
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (肖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
梢	*sreːw
捎	*sreːw, *sew
筲	*sreːw
鞘	*sreːw, *slewɢs
艄	*sreːw
蛸	*sreːw, *sew
髾	*sreːw
輎	*sreːw
旓	*sreːw
弰	*sreːw
鮹	*sreːw, *sew
綃	*sreːw, *sew
颵	*sreːw
莦	*sreːw, *sew
娋	*sreːw, *sreːws
稍	*sreːws
哨	*sreːws, *sʰews, *sew
揱	*sreːwɢs, *slew, *sreːwɢ
潲	*sreːws
睄	*sreːws
悄	*sʰewʔ
俏	*sʰews
峭	*sʰews
陗	*sʰews
帩	*sʰews
誚	*zews
消	*sew
宵	*sew
霄	*sew
硝	*sew
銷	*sew
逍	*sew
魈	*sew
痟	*slew
焇	*sew
肖	*slew, *slews
韒	*slewɢs
趙	*l'ewʔ
箾	*seːw, *sleːw
踃	*seːw
削	*slewɢ
矟	*sreːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *slew): semantic 疒 (“sickness”) + phonetic 肖 (OC *slew, *slews).

Etymology 1

trad.		痟
simp. #		痟

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiāo (xiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): siau

  (Teochew, Peng'im): siao¹ / siou¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siao
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao¹
    • Yale: syāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiau
    • Palladius: сяо (sjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: siu¹
    • Yale: sīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siau
    • Tâi-lô: siau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siaw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siau³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siau⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siau⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: siao¹ / siou¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siau / siou
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siau³³/, /siou³³/

Note: siou1 - Chaozhou.

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• Middle Chinese: sjew

Rime
Character	痟
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	相邀切
Baxter	sjew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇu/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛu/
Shao Rongfen	/sjæu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siaw/
Li Rong	/siɛu/
Wang Li	/sĭɛu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯ɛu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	siu1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*slew/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	痟
Reading #	1/1
No.	13750
Phonetic component	肖
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	宵
Old Chinese	/*slew/

Definitions

痟

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) headache
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) short for 消渴病 (“diabetes”)
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to decline; to wane

Etymology 2

trad.		痟
simp. #		痟
alternative forms		𤞚 瘹 Hainanese

Pronunciation

• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sieo³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): siáu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): siao² / siou²

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• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sieo³
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sâ̤u
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬieu⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sieo³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬieu³³²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siáu
    • Tâi-lô: siáu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siao
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siau⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siau⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siau⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siau⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siau⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: siao² / siou²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siáu / sióu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siau⁵²/, /siou⁵²/

Note: siou2 - Chaozhou.

Definitions

痟 (Southern Min, Puxian Min)

1. insane; mad
2. to be in heat
3. to be engrossed; to be absorbed

Usage notes

Often code-mixed into Singapore English and Mandarin.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 瘋 (“mad; crazy; insane”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		痴, 狂, 癲
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		瘋, 狂, 瘋癲, 瘋狂
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	瘋, 有毛病
	Taiwan	瘋
	Singapore	神經病, 有毛病
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	痴
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	瘋
	Xi'an	瘋
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	瘋
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	八面威, 八面
	Guiyang	瘋
	Liuzhou	癲
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	瘋
Cantonese	Guangzhou	癲, 黐線, 黐筋, 黐孖筋, short
	Hong Kong	癲, 黐線, 黐筋, 黐孖筋, 黐膠花, short, 黐總掣, 黐大掣
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	癲, 黐線
	Penang (Guangfu)	癲, 黐線
	Singapore (Guangfu)	癲, 黐線
Gan	Nanchang	瘋
Hakka	Meixian	癲
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	癲, 癲脬
Southern Min	Xiamen	痟
	Quanzhou	痟
	Yongchun	痟
	Zhangzhou	痟, 魔
	Zhao'an	痟
	Tainan	痟
	Penang (Hokkien)	痟
	Singapore (Hokkien)	痟
	Manila (Hokkien)	痟
	Chaozhou	痟
	Shantou	痟
	Shantou (Chenghai)	痟
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	痟
	Jieyang	痟
	Haifeng	癲
	Singapore (Teochew)	痟
	Leizhou	痟神
	Wenchang	發痟
	Singapore (Hainanese)	發痟
Puxian Min	Putian	痟
	Xianyou	痟
Wu	Shanghai	痴
	Shanghai (Chongming)	痴
	Danyang	瘋
	Hangzhou	瘋
	Wenzhou	癲
	Jinhua	癲
Xiang	Loudi	瘋

Compounds

• 佯痟
• 假痟
• 痟亂 / 痟乱
• 痟人
• 痟仔無縛尾 / 痟仔无缚尾
• 痟入
• 痟六六
• 痟公子
• 痟出
• 痟叮噹 / 痟叮当
• 痟噹噹 / 痟当当
• 痟囝
• 痟尾風吹 / 痟尾风吹
• 痟狂
• 痟狗
• 痟狗母
• 痟狗湧 / 痟狗涌
• 痟狗症
• 痟狗舂墓壙 / 痟狗舂墓圹 (siáu káu cheng bōng-khòng) (Min Nan)
• 痟狗草
• 痟痟
• 痟痟六六
• 痟的
• 痟神
• 痟話 / 痟话
• 痟貓 / 痟猫
• 痟貓面 / 痟猫面
• 痟貪 / 痟贪
• 痟顛顛 / 痟颠颠
• 痟風 / 痟风
• 練痟話 / 练痟话
• 裝痟的 / 装痟的
• 起痟

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02763
• “痟”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “痟”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 487.

Japanese

Kanji

痟

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しょう (shō)
• Kun: ずつう (zutsū)