Chinese symbol for “gangrene”
坏疽
huài jū
Traditional: 壞疽
gangrene
The closest CC-CEDICT match for gangrene is 坏疽 (huài jū), defined as: gangrene.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “gangrene”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 疽 | jū | gangrene |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 坏疽.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 破坏 (破壞) | pò huài | destruction; damage |
| 坏人 (壞人) | huài rén | bad person; villain |
| 坏事 (壞事) | huài shì | bad thing; misdeed; to ruin things |
| 损坏 (損壞) | sǔn huài | to damage; to injure |
| 好坏 (好壞) | hǎo huài | good or bad; good and bad |
| 吓坏 (嚇壞) | xià huài | to be terrified; to terrify sb |
| 炭疽 | tàn jū | (medicine) anthrax; (horticulture) anthracnose; canker |
| 炭疽病 | tàn jū bìng | (medicine) anthrax; (horticulture) anthracnose; canker |
See also: Japanese symbol for “gangrene”.
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.