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传染病

chuán rǎn bìng

HSK 3.0 level 6 3-character word Traditional 傳染病

传染病 (chuán rǎn bìng) means "infectious disease; contagious disease; pestilence". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 传染病 means

1. infectious disease; contagious disease; communicable disease

The characters in 传染病

• 传chuánto pass on; to spread; to transmit
• 染rǎnto dye; to catch (a disease); to acquire (bad habits etc)
• 病bìngillness; disease; to fall ill

Example sentences

• 生命是一种致命的性传染病。
  Shēngmìng shì yīzhǒng zhìmìng de xìng chuánrǎnbìng.
  Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

Words starting with 传染病

• 传染病学chuán rǎn bìng xuéepidemiology

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