Chinese symbol for “outbreak”
疫情
yì qíng
epidemic; outbreak
The closest CC-CEDICT match for outbreak is 疫情 (yì qíng), defined as: epidemic; outbreak.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 疫情.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 疫苗 | yì miáo | vaccine |
| 免疫 | miǎn yì | immunity (to disease) |
| 防疫 | fáng yì | to prevent epidemics |
| 瘟疫 | wēn yì | plague; pestilence |
| 检疫 (檢疫) | jiǎn yì | quarantine |
| 情况 (情況) | qíng kuàng | circumstances; state of affairs; situation; 种 (zhǒng) |
| 事情 | shì qing | affair; matter; thing; business; measure word: 件 (jiàn), 桩 (zhuāng) |
| 情绪 (情緒) | qíng xù | mood; state of mind |
See also: Japanese symbol for “outbreak”.
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.