口蹄疫

kǒutíyì
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 foot-and-mouth disease (FMD)
  2. 2 aphthous fever

Examples

Kǒutíyì zhǔyào gǎnrǎn ǒutí lèi dòngwù.
Foot-and-mouth disease mainly infects cloven-hoofed animals.
Zhè ge nóngchǎng bàofā le kǒutíyì.
An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease occurred at this farm.

Tips

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

Stroke Order

kǒu