Under an electron microscope this virus looks like a crown, which is how it got its name.
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冠 here is first tone, the noun 'crown, cap'; fourth-tone 冠 means 'to come first', as in 冠军. The word is mostly met in 冠状病毒, coronavirus, and 冠状动脉, the coronary artery that rings the heart like a crown.
