Memory phrase for the character: 瘟


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Meaning infection, epidemic, plague, pestilence

Pronunciation

wēn

Explanation

Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), right: 昷 (variant of warm 温 = The water on a sunny plate becomes warm.)

Mnemonic


 
(You get fever:) The disease of heat is: an infection.

Radicals

sicknessSimilar radicals are building 广 or cliff .
sun, dayThis radical was developed from a circle with a central dot as the image of the sun. As you can hardly draw circles or dots with a brush, it became the current rectangular shape.
bowl
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 Vocabulary

瘟疫 wēn yì  epidemic; plague; pestilence; diseased
遭瘟 zāo wēn  to suffer from a plague; to endure a misfortune; a plague on him!
瘟神 wēn shén  demon personifying pestilence
瘟神 wēn shén  


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