流行病

Chinese

		prevalent; widespread; popular prevalent; widespread; popular; in vogue; fashionable	ailment; illness; disease ailment; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect
trad. (流行病)		流行	病
simp. #(流行病)		流行	病

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liúxíngbìng

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄅㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lau⁴ hang⁴ beng⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): liû-hêng-pīⁿ / liû-hêng-pēⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liúxíngbìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄅㄧㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lióusíngbìng
    • Wade–Giles: liu²-hsing²-ping⁴
    • Yale: lyóu-syíng-bìng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lioushyngbinq
    • Palladius: люсинбин (ljusinbin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯oʊ̯³⁵ ɕiŋ³⁵ piŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lau⁴ hang⁴ beng⁶
    • Yale: làuh hàhng behng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lau⁴ hang⁴ beng⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: leo⁴ heng⁴ béng⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐu̯²¹ hɐŋ²¹ pɛːŋ²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liû-hêng-pīⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: liû-hîng-pīnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liu'hengpvi
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /liu²⁴⁻²² hiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² pĩ²²/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /liu²⁴⁻¹¹ hiɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ pĩ³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /liu²⁴⁻²² hiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² pĩ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liû-hêng-pēⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: liû-hîng-pēnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liu'hengpve
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /liu¹³⁻²² hiɪŋ¹³⁻²² pɛ̃²²/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /liu²³⁻³³ hiɪŋ²³⁻³³ pẽ³³/

Noun

流行病

1. (medicine) epidemic; widespread disease

   地方性流行病  ―  dìfāngxìng liúxíngbìng  ―  endemic disease

2. (figurative) prevalent social evil

Synonyms

• (epidemic): (Classical Chinese, dialectal) 時氣／时气 (shíqì), (literary) 時疫／时疫 (shíyì)
• (prevalent social evil): 弊病 (bìbìng)

Derived terms

• 大流行病 (dà liúxíngbìng)
• 流行病學 / 流行病学 (liúxíngbìngxué)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
流	行	病
りゅう Grade: 3	こう Grade: 2	びょう Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) りゅうこーびょー [ryùúkóóbyóó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɾʲɨːko̞ːbʲo̞ː]

Noun

流(りゅう)行(こう)病(びょう) • (ryūkōbyō) 

1. an epidemic

Synonyms

• 疫病(えきびょう) (ekibyō)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
流	行	病
はや(り)		やまい Grade: 3
Grade: 3	Grade: 2
jukujikun		kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 流行病 – see the following entry.

【流行はやり病やまい】 [noun] epidemic; a sudden outbreak of contagious disease

(This term, 流行病, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

• Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN