TSUMUGU · TOCFL 6 (est.) · 字
罹
罹 ＝ 罒 ＋ 惟
ㄌㄧˊ · lí
verb — to suffer, meet with, be stricken by (misfortune)
字源 FORM — what the parts do
罒義a net — misfortune dropping over youthe 网 radical, flattened on top
惟聲lí — a worn form of 離 (lí), which carries the sounda heart 忄 beside a bird 隹
A net (罒) coming down over a person — caught in it, you suffer what falls on you. The lower piece, written 惟 in the standard form, is a worn 離 lí and carries the sound. What the net catches is disaster, illness: 罹難、罹患、罹禍.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
災禍像網（罒）一樣兜頭罩下，人一時躲不開——罹難。
Misfortune drops like a net (罒) over a person who cannot dodge in time — stricken.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)羅、遭網— to be caught in a net
→罹難、罹禍— to meet with disaster常用
⇒罹患、罹病— to be stricken by illness
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension