Chinese symbol for “plasmodium”
疟原虫
nüè yuán chóng
Traditional: 瘧原蟲
plasmodium (malaria parasite)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for plasmodium is 疟原虫 (nüè yuán chóng), defined as: plasmodium (malaria parasite).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 疟原虫.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 疟疾 (瘧疾) | nüè jí | malaria |
| 疟蚊 (瘧蚊) | nüè wén | Anopheles (type of mosquito) |
| 痎疟 (痎瘧) | jiē nüè | (TCM) tertian malaria |
| 疟子 (瘧子) | yào zi | (coll.) malaria |
| 疟疾病 (瘧疾病) | nüè jí bìng | malaria |
| 原因 | yuán yīn | cause; origin |
| 原来 (原來) | yuán lái | original; former; originally; formerly; at first |
| 原则 (原則) | yuán zé | principle; doctrine |
| 昆虫 (昆蟲) | kūn chóng | insect; 只 (zhī),群 (qún),堆 (duī) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “plasmodium”.
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.