Chinese symbol for “vaccine”
疫苗
yì miáo
vaccine
The closest CC-CEDICT match for vaccine is 疫苗 (yì miáo), defined as: vaccine.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “vaccine”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 菌苗 | jūn miáo | vaccine |
| 痘苗 | dòu miáo | vaccine |
| 苗 | miáo | young plant; seedling; (bound form) young animal raised for farming or aquaculture (e.g. 鱼苗 (yú miáo)) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 疫苗.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 疫情 | yì qíng | epidemic; outbreak |
| 免疫 | miǎn yì | immunity (to disease) |
| 防疫 | fáng yì | to prevent epidemics |
| 瘟疫 | wēn yì | plague; pestilence |
| 检疫 (檢疫) | jiǎn yì | quarantine |
| 苗条 (苗條) | miáo tiao | (of a woman) slim; slender |
| 幼苗 | yòu miáo | young sprout; bud |
| 火苗 | huǒ miáo | flame |
See also: Japanese symbol for “vaccine”.
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.