痘

音読おんよみ: トウ

訓読くんよみ: none*

画数かくすう: 12

部首ぶしゅ: 疒(やまいだれ)

Meaning

Smallpox / Pox / Skin Eruptions

  • 種痘しゅとう — smallpox vaccination; inoculation
  • 水痘すいとう — chickenpox
  • 天然痘てんねんとう — smallpox (full term)
  • 痘痕あばた — pockmark; scar left by pox

On the left, is the illness radical, showing a person lying on a bed. On the right, the part that looks like gives the sound トウ and also suggests small round spots. Together, refers to an infectious disease that covers the skin with many pox-like eruptions.

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