nüèyào

intermittent fever

Components
疒 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sick

sickness

虐 sound component

  Sound component

nüè

  

cruel

Evolution

瘧 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
瘧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
瘧 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
瘧 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

nüè

intermittent fever; malaria

() 

yào

see 瘧子|疟子[yào​zi]

Most common words with 瘧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

疟疾

malaria

malaria

疟原虫

plasmodium (malaria parasite)

疟蚊

Anopheles (type of mosquito)

疟子

(coll.) malaria

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4153rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+7627

Shuowen

“瘧,熱寒休作。从疒,从虐,虐亦聲。”


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