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Kanji Detail for 疫 - "epidemic, plague"
疫
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Meaning
疫 means "epidemic, plague." Also associated with infection.
Epidemic - A widespread disease outbreak.
Plague - A deadly infectious disease.
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Words using 疫
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免疫
めんえき
immunity; immunization; immunisation
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検疫
けんえき
quarantine; medical inspection
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防疫
ぼうえき
communicable disease control (e.g. by quarantine, disinfection, etc.); prevention of epidemics
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免疫
めんえき
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Tattoo check: 疫
- Verified meaning: epidemic, plague
- Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
- Also carries these associations: infection
A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.
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Compare with other kanji that mean the same thing:
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Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
epidemic
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
epidemic, plague, pestilence
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
(bound form) epidemic; plague
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
epidemic, plague, pestilence
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
瘟疫 (plague). Infectious diseases that spread widely are all called 疫. Such as scarlet fever, typhoid, typhus, cholera, plague, red dysentery, smallpox, and scarlatina. All are examples.
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Onyomi
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Kunyomi
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Strokes
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Radical
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Related Keywords
Sentences including 疫
I'm under quarantine.
An epidemic has broken out.
Progress is a comfortable disease.
Tom has a weakened immune system.
I'm immune to smallpox.
I am immune to smallpox.
In ancient times, plagues killed many people.
More often than not, famine is accompanied by plague.
All our children are immune to measles.
Everybody is immune to smallpox nowadays.