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油症

yóu zhèng

2-character word

What 油症 means

1. Yusho disease or Yu-cheng disease, mass poisoning caused by rice bran oil in northern Kyushu, Japan (1968), and in Taiwan (1979)

The characters in 油症

• 油yóuoil; fat; grease
• 症zhèngdisease; illness

Sounds the same

Read yóu zhèng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 邮政postal service; postal

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