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Meaning of 瘴

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Pinyin: zhàng
English Definition: malaria; miasma
Chinese Definition:
①(瘴气)热带山林中的湿热蒸郁致人疾病的气。简称“瘴”,如“瘴疠”,“毒瘴”,“瘴雨蛮烟”。[合]瘴烟(湿势蒸发而致人疾病的烟气);瘴氛(犹瘴气);瘴雨(指南方含有瘴气的雨);瘴茅(芒茅黄枯时节之瘴疠);瘴海(南方海域;指南方有瘴气之地);瘴乡(南方有瘴气的地方。)
Total strokes: 16; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (sickness) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Surround from upper left
    • [ ] sickness, disease
    • [ zhāng ] chapter, section, writing; seal
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Example Words
乌烟瘴气 yān zhàng billowing smoke (idiom); foul atmosphere; (fig.) murky atmosphere; in a turmoil
瘴疠 zhàng tropical disease attributed to miasma; malaria
瘴烟毒雾 zhàng yān miasmal clouds (idiom)
瘴雨蛮烟 zhàng mán yān pestilential rain and unhealthy mist (idiom)
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Example Sentences
1
Old bear grass malaria, at the present but also hi carp wind.
2
Want to be reading head has white, ape cry malaria every river cane river.
3
Black of the dry frame is strange cry 2, toward a night pearly spurt in the jaws poison Zhang.
4
Garland, made, beautiful fragrant baldric, woman scramble to wear to flooding, dysentery.
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A plague never broke out and drochs were only able to grow in the dark.