Chinese symbol for “encephalitis”
脑炎
nǎo yán
Traditional: 腦炎
encephalitis
The closest CC-CEDICT match for encephalitis is 脑炎 (nǎo yán), defined as: encephalitis.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 脑炎.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 电脑 (電腦) | diàn nǎo | computer; 台 (tái) |
| 脑袋 (腦袋) | nǎo dai | head; skull |
| 大脑 (大腦) | dà nǎo | brain; cerebrum |
| 头脑 (頭腦) | tóu nǎo | brains; mind |
| 脑子 (腦子) | nǎo zi | brains; mind |
| 首脑 (首腦) | shǒu nǎo | head (of state); summit (meeting) |
| 肺炎 | fèi yán | pneumonia; inflammation of the lungs |
| 炎热 (炎熱) | yán rè | blistering hot; sizzling hot (weather) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “encephalitis”.
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.