Chinese symbol for “appendicitis”
阑尾炎
lán wěi yán
Traditional: 闌尾炎
appendicitis (medicine)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for appendicitis is 阑尾炎 (lán wěi yán), defined as: appendicitis (medicine).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “appendicitis”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 阑尾炎.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阑尾 (闌尾) | lán wěi | appendix; vermiform appendix (anatomy) |
| 阑珊 (闌珊) | lán shān | coming to an end; waning |
| 夜阑 (夜闌) | yè lán | late at night; in the dead of night |
| 阑干 (闌干) | lán gān | (literary) crisscross; uneven |
| 夜阑人静 (夜闌人靜) | yè lán rén jìng | the still of the night (idiom); late at night |
| 尾巴 | wěi ba | tail; colloquial pr. [yi3 ba5] |
| 结尾 (結尾) | jié wěi | ending; coda |
| 尾声 (尾聲) | wěi shēng | coda; epilogue |
| 肺炎 | fèi yán | pneumonia; inflammation of the lungs |
See also: Japanese symbol for “appendicitis”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.