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Chinese symbol for “sinusitis”

鼻窦炎
bí dòu yán
Traditional: 鼻竇炎
sinusitis

The closest CC-CEDICT match for sinusitis is 鼻窦炎 (bí dòu yán), defined as: sinusitis.

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Characters and stroke order

鼻 bí
nose; first
radical 209 ⿐ · 14 strokes
窦 dòu
sinuses; corrupt; surname
radical 116 ⽳ · 13 strokes
炎 yán
flame, blaze; hot
radical 86 ⽕ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 鼻窦炎.

WordPinyinMeaning
鼻子bí zinose; 个 (gè),只 (zhī)
鼻孔bí kǒngnostril; 只 (zhī)
鼻涕bí tìnasal mucus; snivel; snot
鼻炎bí yánrhinitis
鼻祖bí zǔthe earliest ancestor; originator (of a tradition, school of thought etc)
鼻腔bí qiāngnasal cavity
疑窦 (疑竇)yí dòu(literary) doubts; suspicions
鼻窦 (鼻竇)bí dòuparanasal sinus
肺炎fèi yánpneumonia; inflammation of the lungs

See also: Japanese symbol for “sinusitis”.

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.