症状

See also: 症狀

Chinese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 症状 – see 症狀 (“symptom”). (This term is the simplified form of 症狀).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 症状 – see 癥狀 (“signs and symptoms”). (This term is the simplified form of 癥狀).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
症	状
しょう Grade: S	じょう Grade: 5
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
症狀 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 癥狀 (MC tring dzrjangH, “abdominal tumor, disease + form, appearance”)). Compare modern simplified Chinese 症状 (zhèngzhuàng, “symptom”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) しょーじょー [shòójóꜜò] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [ɕo̞ːʑo̞ː]

Noun

症(しょう)状(じょう) • (shōjō) ^{←しやうじやう (syauzyau)?}

1. (medicine) a symptom

   ウルシに触(ふ)れるとどういう症状(しょうじょう)ですか。気触(かぶ)れるのですか。

   Urushi ni fureru to dō iu shōjō desu ka. Kabureru no desu ka.

   When you touch poison ivy, what kind of symptoms are there? Do you break out in a rash?

2. (medicine) a patient's medical condition

   患者(かんじゃ)の症状(しょうじょう)が悪化(あっか)した。

   Kanja no shōjō ga akka shita.

   The patient's condition worsened.

Synonyms

• (symptom): 徴候(ちょうこう) (chōkō)
• (condition): 病状(びょうじょう) (byōjō), 容態(ようだい) (yōdai)

References

• “症状”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025