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Kanji Detail for 痘 - "smallpox, pox, disease"
痘
- Meaning
痘 means "smallpox, pox, disease."
Smallpox - A serious infectious disease.
Pox - A disease causing skin eruptions.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
pox; smallpox
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
smallpox
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
pimple; pustule
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
smallpox
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
痘瘡 (smallpox). Called 天花 (heavenly flowers). Also called 天然痘 (natural pox). The body develops high fever. Sores grow on the skin. Shaped like peas. Extremely contagious. Very dangerous to life. It is said that when Later Han's Ma Yuan conquered the Wuling barbarians, the disease first entered China. Anciently also called 虜瘡 (barbarian sores). Our country anciently had the method of vaccination. Using scabs to make vaccine. Inserted into the nostrils. After several days pox would grow. Then one was immune to the danger of natural smallpox. The Englishman Jenner invented using cow serum as vaccine. Inoculated on the arm. This method is even better. Called cowpox. Now used universally in all countries.
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