炭疽

tànjū
noun #14,066

Meanings

  1. 1 (medicine) anthrax
  2. 2 (horticulture) anthracnose; canker

Examples

Tànjū shì yī zhǒng yánzhòng de chuánrǎnbìng.
Anthrax is a serious infectious disease.
Èr líng líng yī nián Měiguó fāshēng le tànjū yóujiàn shìjiàn.
In 2001, the anthrax mail attacks occurred in the United States.

Tips

memory
(tàn) = charcoal/carbon, (jū) = gangrene/carbuncle. Anthrax gets its name from the Greek word for coal, because it causes black skin lesions — the Chinese name mirrors this with (charcoal).

Stroke Order

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