Hanja Analyzer
症

症 — jeung

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
증세 증
Romanization
jeung
English
disease, illness, ailment
Mandarin
zhèng
Japanese on'yomi
ショウ, セイ
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,111 of 2,500
Strokes
10
Radical
疒 (104, 5 residual)
Phonetic component
正
Unicode
U+75C7

Parts that make up 症

  • 疒 병상에 기댄 사람병과 아픔
  • 正 바를 정sound 성을 향해 곧게 가는 발바르고 곧은 것. ‘정’ 계열의 소리

How 症 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 症 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 疒, 正.

Korean example words with 症

  • 통증痛症 Korean gloss: 아픈 증세
  • 두증痘症 Korean gloss: 천연두의 증세
  • 급증急症 Korean gloss: 아주 위급한 병
  • 경증輕症 Korean gloss: 병의 가벼운 증세
  • 악증惡症 Korean gloss: 악의가 있는 짜증
  • 중증重症 Korean gloss: 아주 위중한 병의 증세
  • 궁증窮症 Korean gloss: 궁기가 생겨 먹고 싶은 증상
  • 조증躁症 Korean gloss: 조급하게 구는 성질이나 버릇
  • 화증火症 Korean gloss: 걸핏하면 화를 왈칵 내는 증세
  • 갈증渴症 Korean gloss: 목이 말라 물을 마시고 싶은 느낌
  • 농증膿症 Korean gloss: 화농균이 몸에 들어가서 곪는 증상
  • 흉증凶症 Korean gloss: 흉한 짓을 자주 하는 병적인 버릇

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 症

  • 症状しょうじょう symptoms; condition (of a patient)
  • 症しょう illness; condition; -pathy
  • 後遺症こういしょう prognostic symptoms; after-effect; sequela
  • 症候群しょうこうぐん syndrome
  • 重症じゅうしょう serious illness
  • 感染症かんせんしょう infectious disease; infection
  • 症例しょうれい case
  • 花粉症かふんしょう hay fever; pollinosis (allergy to pollen)
  • 炎症えんしょう inflammation; irritation
  • 自閉症じへいしょう autism
  • 狭心症きょうしんしょう angina pectoris
  • 合併症がっぺいしょう complication

Characters sharing the phonetic 正

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “증”

Other hanja with radical 疒

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