Han Character 腵

腵 names an intestinal illness in older Chinese lexicons.

腸病 means “bowel disease”; 正字通 also records 癥病, an older term for an abdominal disorder. These are medical dictionary glosses, not a precise diagnosis or a general term for every stomachache.

腵 history follows a dictionary trail

Its traceable history runs through Chinese dictionaries.

The earliest cited source in the trail is 玉篇 (Yupian), a Chinese character dictionary compiled in 543. A surviving manuscript witness of 玉篇 is dated to the 7th century; 集韻, a later dictionary completed in 1039, also records the reading. Mandarin writes that reading as jiā in pinyin, its Latin-letter spelling system; the line over the a marks a high, level tone.

The first written appearance of 腵 remains undated as of 2026; the dates above belong to dictionaries and a manuscript, not to the graph’s first use.