zhàng

malaria pestilential vapors

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
疒 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sick

章 sound component

  Sound component

zhāng

  

chapter, seal

Definitions

 

zhàng

malaria pestilential vapors; malaria; miasma

Most common words with 瘴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

乌烟瘴气

billowing smoke (idiom)

malaria

瘴疠

malaria