Chinese symbol for “scurvy”
坏血病
huài xuè bìng
Traditional: 壞血病
scurvy
The closest CC-CEDICT match for scurvy is 坏血病 (huài xuè bìng), defined as: scurvy.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 坏血病.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 破坏 (破壞) | pò huài | destruction; damage |
| 坏人 (壞人) | huài rén | bad person; villain |
| 坏事 (壞事) | huài shì | bad thing; misdeed; to ruin things |
| 损坏 (損壞) | sǔn huài | to damage; to injure |
| 好坏 (好壞) | hǎo huài | good or bad; good and bad |
| 吓坏 (嚇壞) | xià huài | to be terrified; to terrify sb |
| 血液 | xuè yè | blood; (fig.) lifeblood |
| 血腥 | xuè xīng | reeking of blood; bloody (events) |
| 病毒 | bìng dú | virus |
See also: Japanese symbol for “scurvy”.
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.
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