患
/xu̯än⁵¹/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•to contract (an illness); to suffer from; to be afflicted with · disease; illness · to worry; to feel anxious
Etimoloji
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡroːns): phonetic 串 (OC *kroːns, *kʰjons) + semantic 心 (“heart”). Since Shuowen does not have the character 串, it interprets the character as phonetic 吅 (OC *qʰon, *sqʰon, *sɢoŋs) + semantic 丨 + semantic 心 (“heart”) – to pierce through something from the heart. Duan Yucai claims in his commentary that older copies of Shuowen actually have phonetic 毌 (OC *koːn,…