流行病
Chinese edit
ailment; illness; disease ailment; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect | |||
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trad. (流行病) | 流行 | 病 | |
simp. #(流行病) | 流行 | 病 |
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
流行病
- (medicine) epidemic; widespread disease
- 地方性流行病 ― dìfāngxìng liúxíngbìng ― endemic disease
- (figurative) prevalent social evil
Synonyms edit
- (epidemic): (Classical Chinese, dialectal) 時氣/时气 (shíqì), (literary) 時疫/时疫 (shíyì)
- (prevalent social evil): 弊病 (bìbìng)
Derived terms edit
Japanese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Kanji in this term | ||
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流 | 行 | 病 |
りゅう Grade: 3 |
こう Grade: 2 |
びょう Grade: 3 |
on’yomi |
Noun edit
- an epidemic
Synonyms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
流行病 • (hayariyamai)
- a sudden outbreak of contagious disease
References edit
- Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN