口蹄疫

kǒutíyì

noun

Meanings

口蹄疫主要感染偶蹄类动物。

Kǒutíyì zhǔyào gǎnrǎn ǒutílèi dòngwù.

Foot-and-mouth disease mainly infects cloven-hoofed animals.

这个农场爆发了口蹄疫。

Zhège nóngchǎng bàofā le kǒutíyì.

An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease occurred at this farm.

memory

口 (mouth) + 蹄 (hoof) + 疫 (epidemic) = 'mouth-and-hoof epidemic' — a direct calque of the English name, just with 'hoof' instead of 'foot'.

口 kǒu

蹄 tí

疫 yì