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瘟

wēn

Character

What 瘟 means

1. epidemic; pestilence; plague
2. (fig.) stupid; dull; (of a performance) lackluster

Example sentences

• 成千上万的人死于瘟疫。
  Thousands upon thousands have died from the epidemic.

Words starting with 瘟

• 瘟疫wēn yìplague; pestilence
• 瘟神wēn shéndemon personifying pestilence

Words containing 瘟

• 暑瘟shǔ wēntropical disease; summertime disease
• 猪瘟zhū wēnswine fever
• 猫瘟māo wēnfeline panleukopenia; feline distemper
• 遭瘟zāo wēnto suffer from a plague; to endure a misfortune; a plague on him!
• 驱瘟qū wēnto expel pestilences
• 犬瘟热quǎn wēn rècanine distemper (mammalian disease caused by Canine morbillivirus)
• 非洲猪瘟Fēi zhōu zhū wēnAfrican swine fever
• 五瘟wǔ wēnfive chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence
• 五瘟神wǔ wēn shénfive chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence; cf four horsemen of the apocalypse

Characters that look like 瘟

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

• 摄shè(bound form) to take in; to absorb; to assimilate; to capture (video or still images)…
• 瘤liútumor
• 蔬shūvegetables
• 蕴yùnto accumulate; to hold in store; to contain
• 痿wěiatrophy
• 撂liàoto put down; to leave behind; to throw or knock down

Sounds the same

Read wēn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 温warm; lukewarm; to warm up; (bound form) temperature
• 塭used in 鱼塭; used in place names
• 榅used in 榅桲
• 豱short-headed pig
• 辒hearse
• 鳁sardine
• 鰛variant of 鳁, sardine
• 輼variant of 辒, hearse