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With the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, a large amount of medical terms that might be strange to non-native Chinese speakers suddenly started popping up on notices or in the news, and not being able to understand these signs might be a source of worry for some! To help with this, and also help facilitate cross-cultural communication as the coronavirus starts to become a global threat, we created this small COVID-19 terminology handbook to help you better understand the information being sent out from Chinese sources.

Teachers and students from the Peking University School of Foreign Languages came up with the following compilation of coronavirus related terms in eight languages: English, Russian, French, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Hindi, and Vietnamese.

Chinese - English

新型冠狀病毒肺炎 novel coronavirus disease/COVID-19
傳染性 infectivity
密切接觸者 close contact
交叉感染 cross infection
N95口罩 N95 face-mask
醫(yī)用外科口罩 surgical mask
一次性口罩 disposable mask
防護服 protective clothing/suits
護目鏡 goggle
確診病例 confirmed case
疑似病例 suspected case
發(fā)病 onset (of a disease)
死亡率 fatality rate
疫苗 vaccine
核酸檢測 nucleic acid testing
發(fā)熱 fever
腹瀉 diarrhea
乏力 fatigue
干咳 dry cough
呼吸困難 have difficulty breathing
隔離 quarantine
體溫檢測 temperature measurement
突發(fā)公共衛(wèi)生事件 public health emergency
減少外出 go out less (stay indoors)
關(guān)閉景點 shut down attractions
停運 out of service
科學(xué)防治 scientific prevention and control

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