Chinese symbol for “polio”
小儿麻痹
xiǎo ér má bì
Traditional: 小兒麻痺
polio (poliomyelitis)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for polio is 小儿麻痹 (xiǎo ér má bì), defined as: polio (poliomyelitis).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 小儿麻痹.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小时 (小時) | xiǎo shí | hour |
| 小说 (小說) | xiǎo shuō | novel; fiction |
| 小学 (小學) | xiǎo xué | elementary school; primary school |
| 小姐 | xiǎo jie | young lady; miss |
| 小组 (小組) | xiǎo zǔ | group |
| 小孩 | xiǎo hái | child; 个 (gè) |
| 儿子 (兒子) | ér zi | son |
| 女儿 (女兒) | nǚ ér | daughter |
| 麻烦 (麻煩) | má fan | trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying |
| 麻痹 (麻痺) | má bì | paralysis; palsy |
See also: Japanese symbol for “polio”.
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.