疫禍

Japanese

Kanji in this term
疫	禍
えき Grade: S	か Grade: S
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
疫禍 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Compound of 疫 (“epidemic”) and 禍 (“disaster”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [e̞kʲika̠]

Noun

疫(えき)禍(か) • (ekika) 

1. A chaos or a disaster caused by an epidemic or a pandemic.
   • 2020 May 28, Koichi Tanigawa, “Ekika to jiten [An epidemic and a dictionary]”, in Hakusuisha‎^[1]:

     疫(えき)禍(か)の下(もと)で暮(く)らすようになってから外(がい)出(しゅつ)にもかなりの制(せい)限(げん)がかかり、もっぱら自(じ)宅近(たくちか)くの武(む)蔵(さし)野(の)の自(し)然(ぜん)の中(なか)を人(ひと)がいないところを見(み)計(はか)らって散(さん)策(さく)している。

     Ekika no moto de kurasu yō ni na' te kara gaishutsu ni mo kanari no seigen ga kaka ri, moppara jitaku chikaku no musashino no shizen no naka o hito ga i nai tokoro o mihakara' te sansaku shi te iru.

     Since we started to live under the pandemic, our going out has been strictly restricted, so I only take a walk in the nature of Musashino near my house while there is no one else.