流行病

流行病

Chinese

		prevalent; widespread; endemic	ailment; illness; disease ailment; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect
simp. and trad. (流行病)		流行	病

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liúxíngbìng

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄅㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lau⁴ hang⁴ beng⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): liû-hêng-pīⁿ / liû-hêng-pēⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: liúxíngbìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄅㄧㄥˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lioushyngbinq
    • IPA ^(key): /li̯oʊ̯³⁵ ɕiŋ³⁵ piŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lau⁴ hang⁴ beng⁶
    • Yale: làuh hàhng behng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lau⁴ hang⁴ beng⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: leo⁴ heng⁴ béng⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /lɐu̯²¹ hɐŋ²¹ pɛːŋ²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liû-hêng-pīⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: liû-hîng-pīnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liu'hengpvi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liu²⁴⁻²² hiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² pĩ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /liu²⁴⁻¹¹ hiɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ pĩ³³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liu²⁴⁻²² hiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² pĩ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liû-hêng-pēⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: liû-hîng-pēnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liu'hengpve
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liu¹³⁻²² hiɪŋ¹³⁻²² pɛ̃²²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /liu²³⁻³³ hiɪŋ²³⁻³³ pẽ³³/

Noun

流行病

1. (medicine) epidemic; widespread disease
2. (figuratively) prevalent social evil

Synonyms

• (epidemic): (Classical Chinese, dialectal) 時氣／时气 (shíqì), (literary) 時疫／时疫 (shíyì)

Derived terms

流行病學／流行病学 (liúxíngbìngxué)

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
流	行	病
りゅう Grade: 3	こう Grade: 2	びょう Grade: 3
on’yomi

Noun

流行病 (hiragana りゅうこうびょう, rōmaji ryūkōbyō)

1. an epidemic

Synonyms

• 疫病 (えきびょう) (ekibyō)

Noun

流行病 (hiragana はやりやまい, rōmaji hayariyamai)

1. a sudden outbreak of contagious disease

References

• 1998, 広辞苑 (Kōjien), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN