症
症 — Symptoms
symptoms, illness
On’yomiショウ (shou)
Kun’yomi—
Stroke order (10 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 症
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 症 | しょう shou | illness; condition; -pathy |
| 症状 | しょうじょう shoujou | symptoms; condition (of a patient) |
| 後遺症 | こういしょう kouishou | prognostic symptoms; after-effect; sequela |
| 症候群 | しょうこうぐん shoukougun | syndrome |
| 重症 | じゅうしょう juushou | serious illness |
| 感染症 | かんせんしょう kansenshou | infectious disease; infection |
Study notes
症 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 10 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1111 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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