症

See also 癥

Translingual

simpl.		症
trad.		癥

Etymology

Simplified from 癥 (徵 → 正).

In current form, Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 疒 (“disease”) + phonetic 正 – a kind of disease.

Han character

症 (radical 104 疒+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大一卜一 (KMYM), four-corner 0011₁, composition ⿸疒正)

1. disease, illness, ailment

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 772, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22140
• Dae Jaweon: page 1183, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2664, character 5
• Unihan data for U+75C7

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Cantonese

Hanzi

症 (traditional 癥, Yale jing1, jing3)

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Japanese

Kanji

症 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: しるし (shirushi)

Suffix

症 (hiragana しょう, romaji -shō)

1. (medicine) illness

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Korean

Hanja

症 (hangeul 증, revised jeung, McCune-Reischauer chŭng, Yale cung)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

症 (traditional 癥, pinyin zhèng (zheng4), zhēng (zheng1), Wade-Giles cheng¹, cheng⁴)