疥

疥	U+75A5, 疥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-75A5

← 疤
[U+75A4]

CJK Unified Ideographs

疦 →
[U+75A6]

Translingual

Han character

疥 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 大人中中 (KOLL), four-corner 0012₈, composition ⿸疒介)

scabies
itch

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 770, character 6
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22057
Dae Jaweon: page 1180, character 11
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2662, character 13
Unihan data for U+75A5

Chinese

simp. and trad.		疥

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
妎	ɡaːds, ɡeːds
芥	*kreːds
尬	*kreːds
界	*kreːds
介	*kreːds
疥	*kreːds
玠	*kreːds
砎	kreːds, kreːd, *ɡraːd
魪	*kreːds
价	*kreːds
衸	kreːds, ɡreːds
齘	*ɡreːds
骱	ɡaːd, kreːd
扴	*kreːd
圿	*kreːd
忦	*kreːd

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): jiè (jie⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˋ

(Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): jiai⁴
Cantonese (Jyutping): gaai³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kòe / kè / kère / kài

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jiè
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jiè
  - Wade–Giles: chieh⁴
  - Yale: jyè
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jieh
  - Palladius: цзе (cze)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: jiai⁴
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: giai
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕiɛi²¹³/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
  - Jyutping: gaai³
  - Yale: gaai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gaai³
  - Guangdong Romanization: gai³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaːi̯³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei, Lukang, Kinmen, Magong, Hsinchu)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kòe
  - Tâi-lô: kuè
  - Phofsit Daibuun: koex
  - IPA (Kinmen): /kue¹²/
  - IPA (Lukang): /kue³¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kue⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kue²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kue¹¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Yilan, Tainan, Taichung, Zhangzhou-like accent in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kè
  - Tâi-lô: kè
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kex
  - IPA (Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Yilan, Tainan): /ke²¹/
- (Hokkien: Sanxia, Quanzhou-like accent in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kère
  - Tâi-lô: kerè
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kài
  - Tâi-lô: kài
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kaix
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /kai²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kai⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kai¹¹/

Note:

kòe/kè/kère - vernacular;
kài - literary.

Middle Chinese: keajH

Rime
Character	疥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	皆 (33)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古拜切
Baxter	keajH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠɛi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚæi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kɐi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəɨj^H/
Li Rong	/kɛi^H/
Wang Li	/kɐi^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kăi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gaai³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*C.kˤr[e][p]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*kreːds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	疥
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiè
Middle Chinese	‹ kɛj^H ›
Old Chinese	/*C.kˁr[e][p]-s/
English	scabby disease
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	疥
Reading #	1/1
No.	6526
Phonetic component	介
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	誡
Old Chinese	/*kreːds/

Definitions

疥

scabies; the itch

Compounds

乾疥 / 干疥
沙疥
爛疥 / 烂疥
生疥
疥厲 / 疥厉
疥壁
疥庀
疥瘡 / 疥疮 (jièchuāng)
疥癩 / 疥癞
疥癬 / 疥癣 (jièxuǎn)
疥癬蟲 / 疥癣虫
疥盤 / 疥盘
疥藥 / 疥药
癬疥 / 癣疥 (xuǎnjiè)
紅腳疥 / 红脚疥

Japanese

Kanji

疥

(Hyōgai kanji)

scabby eruption

Readings

Go-on: け (ke)
Kan-on: かい (kai)
Kun: ひぜん (hizen)、よごす (yogosu)、おこり (okori)、はたけ (hatake)

References

“^▲疥”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

疥 • (gae) (hangeul 개, revised gae, McCune–Reischauer kae, Yale kay)

scabies, itch