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Chinese symbol for “pandemic”

大流行
dà liú xíng
major epidemic; pandemic

The closest CC-CEDICT match for pandemic is 大流行 (dà liú xíng), defined as: major epidemic; pandemic.

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Characters and stroke order

大 dà
big, great, vast, high, deep
radical 37 ⼤ · 3 strokes
流 liú
to flow, to drift, to circulate; class
radical 85 ⽔ · 10 strokes
行 xíng
to go, to walk, to move; professional
radical 144 ⾏ · 6 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 大流行.

WordPinyinMeaning
大学 (大學)dà xuéuniversity; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ)
大家dà jiāeveryone; influential family
大量dà liànggreat amount; large quantity
大陆 (大陸)dà lùcontinent; mainland; 块 (kuài)
大会 (大會)dà huìgeneral assembly; general meeting
重大zhòng dàgreat; important
交流jiāo liúto exchange; exchange
流行liú xíng(of a contagious disease etc) to spread; to propagate; (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular; fashionable
进行 (進行)jìn xíng(of a process etc) to proceed; to be in progress; to be underway; (of people) to carry out; to conduct (an investigation or discussion etc)

See also: Japanese symbol for “pandemic”.

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.