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

坏 huài

bad, rotten, spoiled; to break down

radical 32 ⼟ · 7 strokes

血 xuè

blood

radical 143 ⾎ · 6 strokes

病 bìng

sickness, illness, disease

radical 104 ⽧ · 10 strokes

Traditional forms

壞 huài

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.