天狗熱

Chinese

tiangou; tengu
heat; to heat up; fervent
heat; to heat up; fervent; hot (of weather); warm up
 
trad. (天狗熱) 天狗
simp. (天狗热) 天狗

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching from Japanese デング(ねつ) (dengu-netsu), where the first part is a near-homophone of (てん)() (tengu) (Chu, 2016).

Pronunciation


Noun

天狗熱

  1. (Taiwan, chiefly Hokkien, Hakka) dengue fever

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