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疫

yì

HSK 6 Character

What 疫 means

1. bound formepidemic; plague

Example sentences

• 都是疫情闹的。
  It's all due to the pandemic.
• 我接种了流感疫苗。
  Wǒ jiēzhòng le liúgǎnyìmiáo.
  I was vaccinated against the flu.
• 疫情期间注意安全。
  Be careful during the pandemic.
• 疫苗不会导致自闭症。
  Vaccines don't cause autism.
• 成千上万的人死于瘟疫。
  Thousands upon thousands have died from the epidemic.
• 我不需要接种流感疫苗。
  I don't need a flu shot.

Words starting with 疫

• 疫情yì qíngepidemic situation
• 疫苗yì miáovaccine
• 疫区yì qūepidemic area
• 疫病yì bìngplague; a blight

Words containing 疫

• 免疫miǎn yìimmunity (to disease)
• 防疫fáng yìto prevent epidemics
• 检疫jiǎn yìquarantine
• 瘟疫wēn yìplague; pestilence
• 免疫力miǎn yì lìimmunity
• 鼠疫shǔ yìplague
• 抗疫kàng yìto combat an epidemic
• 免疫学miǎn yì xuéimmunology
• 免疫法miǎn yì fǎimmunization
• 主动免疫zhǔ dòng miǎn yìactive immunity
• 免疫反应miǎn yì fǎn yìngimmune response
• 免疫应答miǎn yì yìng dáimmune response
• 免疫系统miǎn yì xì tǒngimmune system
• 群体免疫qún tǐ miǎn yìherd immunity
• 自动免疫zì dòng miǎn yìactive immunity
• 被动免疫bèi dòng miǎn yìpassive immunity
• 预防免疫yù fáng miǎn yìprophylactic inoculation
• 放射免疫测定fàng shè miǎn yì cè dìngradioimmunoassay
• 自体免疫疾病zì tǐ miǎn yì jí bìngautoimmune disease
• 鸟疫niǎo yìornithosis
• 鸟疫衣原体niǎo yì yī yuán tǐChlamydia ornithosis
• 鼠疫杆菌shǔ yì gǎn jūnYersinia pestis; the bubonic plage bacillus
• 兽疫shòu yìepizootic
• 流感疫苗liú gǎn yì miáoinfluenza vaccine

Characters built on 殳

These share the phonetic component 殳 (shū), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 役yìforced labor; corvée; obligatory task
• 毅yìfirm and resolute; staunch
• 殹yì(archaic) (meaning unclear); (final particle)

Characters that look like 疫

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 建jiànto establish; to found; to set up
• 废fèito abolish; to abandon; to abrogate
• 症zhèngdisease; illness
• 疲píweary
• 浆jiāngthick liquid; to starch
• 疮chuāngsore; skin ulcer

Sounds the same

Read yì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 意(bound form) idea; thought; meaning; sense; (bound form) intention; feeling; inclination…
• 议to comment on; to discuss; to suggest
• 易easy; amiable; to change
• 亿100 million
• 亦also
• 艺skill; art
• 译to translate; to interpret
• 忆to recollect; to remember; memory
• 谊friendship; also pr. yí
• 义justice; righteousness; meaning
• 益benefit; profit; advantage
• 裔(bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 华裔; (literary) distant lands