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Kanji Detail for 痘 - "smallpox, pox"

痘

  • Meaning

    痘 means "smallpox, pox."

    1. Smallpox - A serious infectious disease.

    2. Pox - A disease causing skin eruptions.

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    • Verified meaning: smallpox, pox
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    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.

  • 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.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    toh(トウ) トウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    12 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    疒 (yamaidare)

  • Related Keywords

    smallpox pox infectious disease pustules vaccination epidemic eruption virus

Sentences including 痘

  • Love is blind.

  • When in love, even pockmarks are dimples.

  • I'm immune to smallpox.

  • I am immune to smallpox.

  • Everybody is immune to smallpox nowadays.

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