Chinese symbol for “pertussis”
百日咳
bǎi rì ké
whooping cough; pertussis
The closest CC-CEDICT match for pertussis is 百日咳 (bǎi rì ké), defined as: whooping cough; pertussis.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 百日咳.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 百万 (百萬) | bǎi wàn | million |
| 百姓 | bǎi xìng | common people |
| 百科 | bǎi kē | universal; encyclopedic |
| 百年 | bǎi nián | hundred years; century; (fig.) a whole lifetime; a person's whole life |
| 老百姓 | lǎo bǎi xìng | ordinary people; the "person in the street" |
| 百分点 (百分點) | bǎi fēn diǎn | percentage point |
| 今日 | jīn rì | today |
| 日子 | rì zi | day; a (calendar) date |
| 咳嗽 | ké sou | to cough; 阵 (zhèn) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “pertussis”.
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.