天狗熱

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Chinese[edit]

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[edit]

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

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Noun[edit]

天狗熱

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

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