Chinese symbol for “tetanus”
破伤风
pò shāng fēng
Traditional: 破傷風
tetanus (lockjaw)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for tetanus is 破伤风 (pò shāng fēng), defined as: tetanus (lockjaw).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 破伤风.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 破坏 (破壞) | pò huài | destruction; damage |
| 突破 | tū pò | to break through; to make a breakthrough |
| 打破 | dǎ pò | to break; to smash |
| 破产 (破產) | pò chǎn | to go bankrupt; to become impoverished |
| 破解 | pò jiě | to break (a bond, constraint etc); to explain |
| 破裂 | pò liè | to burst; to rupture; (of a relationship etc) to break down |
| 伤害 (傷害) | shāng hài | to injure; to harm |
| 受伤 (受傷) | shòu shāng | to sustain injuries; wounded (in an accident etc) |
| 风险 (風險) | fēng xiǎn | risk; hazard |
See also: Japanese symbol for “tetanus”.
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.