色覚異常

Japanese

Kanji in this term
色	覚	異	常
しき Grade: 2	かく Grade: 4	い Grade: 6	じょう Grade: 5
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
色覺異常 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 色覚 (shikikaku, “sense of color”) +‎ 異常 (ijō, “abnormality”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) しきかくい​じょー [shìkíkákú íꜜjòò] (Nakadaka – [5])
• IPA^(key): [ɕi̥kʲika̠kɯ̟ᵝ iʑo̞ː]

Noun

色(しき)覚(かく)異(い)常(じょう) • (shikikaku ijō) ^{←しきかくいじやう (sikikakuizyau)?}

1. (pathology) color blindness

Synonyms

• (dated) 色盲(しきもう) (shikimō, “color blindness”), 色弱(しきじゃく) (shikijaku, “mild color blindness”)
• 色覚多様性(しきかくたようせい) (shikikaku tayōsei, literally “color sense diversity”), 色覚特性(しきかくとくせい) (shikikaku tokusei, literally “color sense characteristic”)