nüè / yào
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 malaria

Examples

HSK 7-9
Zài rèdài dìqū, nüèjí réngrán shì yì zhǒng yánzhòng de jíbìng.
In tropical regions malaria is still a serious disease.
HSK 7-9
Wénzi shì chuánbō nüèjí de zhǔyào méijiè.
Mosquitoes are the main vector that spreads malaria.
HSK 7-9
Tú Yōuyōu yīn fāxiàn kàng nüè yàowù huòdé Nuòbèi'ěrjiǎng.
Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize for discovering an anti-malarial drug.

Tips

mistakes
The standard reading is nüè, as in 疟疾 ('malaria'). In colloquial northern speech the same character is read yào in 疟子 ('a bout of malaria; the shakes').

Components

radical
sickness; illness
The sickness radical wraps the top and left, a bed-and-illness sign that marks every disease character; here it tells you names an illness.
phonetic
nüè
cruel; to maltreat
The inner part is a contracted form of (full standalone shape has more strokes). It supplies the sound and a fitting flavor, since malaria's violent recurring fevers were felt as a cruel torment.

Stroke Order

nüè