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症

Symptom
Stroke count: 10

Readings

On readingショウ

Verbs with «症»

発症する
  1. illness
  2. condition
  3. -pathy

Homonyms

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Popular Usage

症状

Radicals and components

Components
How it's built
症
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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sickness · hospital · correct (正) · one (一) · ceiling (冖) · stop (止) · footprint (止)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1816

Compound words

彼は不眠症にかかりやすい。
He is subject to insomnia.tatoeba
妊娠中毒症にかかりました。
I had toxemia during my pregnancy.tatoeba
蓄膿症です。
I have sinus trouble.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

鳥みたいに空を飛べたらいいけど高所恐怖症はどうする?
とりみたいにそらをとべたらいいけどこうしょきょうふしょうはどうする?If I could fly like a bird, but I'm afraid of heights—what then?
今日は暑いですね、熱中症になりそうです。
きょうはあついですね、ねっちゅうしょうになりそうです。It's hot today; I might get heatstroke.
これは、私よりよほど重症である。
これは、わたしよりよほどじゅうしょうである。This is much more serious than I am.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

10 strokes

Symptom. 疒 (illness) + 正 — a sign of illness. 症状 — symptoms.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 症

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step