癢

癢 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+15, 20 strokes, cangjie input 大廿人女 (KTOV), four-corner 0013₂, composition ⿸疒養)

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 782, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22602
• Dae Jaweon: page 1191, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2702, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7662

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *laŋʔ) : semantic 疒 (“illness”) + phonetic 養 (OC *laŋʔ, *laŋs).

Probably from Proto-Sino-Tibetan, though the exact etymon is unclear. Compare Tibetan གཡའ (g.ya', “to itch”), Jingpho kaya (“to itch”), Burmese ယား (ya:, “to itch”), Japhug rɤʑa (“to itch”) (Schuessler, 2007; Baxter and Sagart, 2017; Zhang, Jacques and Lai, 2019), which STEDT derives from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-ja (“to itch”). Also compare Lepcha [script needed] (yak, “to itch”) (Schuessler, 2007), which STEDT derives from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-sak (“to itch”).

癢

1. itchy; ticklish

   撓癢／挠痒  ―  náoyǎng  ―  to scratch an itch

   我這兒很癢。／我这儿很痒。  ―  Wǒ zhèr hěn yǎng.  ―  I'm itchy here.

2. itching to do something

• (itchy):

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. itchy

   Synonym: 痒

• Go-on: よう (yō)^{←やう (yau, historical)}
• Kan-on: よう (yō)^{←やう (yau, historical)}
• Kun: かゆい (kayui, 癢い)

癢 • (yang) (hangeul 양, revised yang, McCune–Reischauer yang, Yale yang)

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癢: Hán Nôm readings: dưỡng, ngứa

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