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Chinese symbol for “virulence”

毒力
dú lì
virulence

The closest CC-CEDICT match for virulence is 毒力 (dú lì), defined as: virulence.

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Characters and stroke order

毒 dú
poison, venom; drug, narcotic
radical 80 ⽏ · 9 strokes
力 lì
strength, power; capability, influence
radical 19 ⼒ · 2 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 毒力.

WordPinyinMeaning
病毒bìng dúvirus
毒品dú pǐndrugs; narcotics
有毒yǒu dúpoisonous
中毒zhòng dúto be poisoned
毒药 (毒藥)dú yàopoison
吸毒xī dúto take drugs
能力néng lìcapability; ability
努力nǔ lìto make an effort; to try hard; to strive; hard-working; conscientious

See also: Japanese symbol for “virulence”.

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.