登革热

登革熱

dēnggérè

noun #42,098

Meanings

1 dengue fever
2 Singapore hemorrhagic fever

Characters

(phonetic, 'den-')

(phonetic, '-gue')

Examples

夏天在东南亚要小心登革热。

Xiàtiān zài Dōngnányà yào xiǎoxīn dēnggérè.

In summer in Southeast Asia, be careful of dengue fever.

登革热是由蚊子传播的。

Dēnggérè shì yóu wénzi chuánbō de.

Dengue fever is spread by mosquitoes.

Tips

memory

登革 is a phonetic transliteration of 'dengue' (登 dēng + 革 gé ≈ 'deng-ge'), with 热 'fever' tacked on as the meaning gloss — a classic half-phonetic, half-semantic loanword pattern in medical Chinese.

Stroke Order

登 dēng

革 gé

热 rè