登革热

登革熱

dēnggérè

noun #42,098

Meanings

1 dengue fever
2 Singapore hemorrhagic fever

Characters

(phonetic, 'den-')

(phonetic, '-gue')

Examples

HSK 2

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.

HSK 7-9

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 + 革 ≈ '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