Chinese symbol for “cholera”
霍乱
huò luàn
Traditional: 霍亂
cholera
The closest CC-CEDICT match for cholera is 霍乱 (huò luàn), defined as: cholera.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “cholera”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 痧 | shā | cholera |
| 瘪螺痧 (癟螺痧) | biě luó shā | cholera (with dehydration) |
| 虎列拉 | hǔ liè lā | (loanword) cholera |
| 虎烈拉 | hǔ liè lā | (loanword) cholera |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 霍乱.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 挥霍 (揮霍) | huī huò | to squander money; extravagant |
| 霍霍 | huò huò | (literary) (onom.) sound of sharpening a knife; (coll.) to mess with; to cause harm to (sb or sth) |
| 挥霍无度 (揮霍無度) | huī huò wú dù | (idiom) to squander recklessly; to spend extravagantly |
| 磨刀霍霍 | mó dāo huò huò | (lit.) to sharpen one's sword (idiom); (fig.) to prepare to attack; to be getting ready for battle |
| 霍然 | huò rán | suddenly; quickly |
| 混乱 (混亂) | hùn luàn | confused; chaotic; disorderly |
| 叛乱 (叛亂) | pàn luàn | armed rebellion |
| 动乱 (動亂) | dòng luàn | turmoil; upheaval |
See also: Japanese symbol for “cholera”.
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.