症

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See also: 癥
症 U+75C7, 症
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-75C7
← 痆
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 痈 →

Translingual

Han character

症 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大一卜一 (KMYM), four-corner 00111, composition ⿸疒正)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 772, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22140
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1183, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2664, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+75C7

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (正) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
綻 *rdeːns
淀 *deːns
靛 *deːns
症 *tjɯŋs
竀 *rtʰeːŋ, *tʰeŋ
征 *tjeŋ
怔 *tjeŋ
正 *tjeŋ, *tjeŋs
鉦 *tjeŋ
鴊 *tjeŋ, *tjeŋs
眐 *tjeŋ
佂 *tjeŋ
整 *tjeŋʔ
政 *tjeŋs
証 *tjeŋs
定 *teːŋs, *deːŋs
顁 *teːŋs
錠 *teːŋs, *deːŋʔ, *deːŋs
掟 *deːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjɯŋs) : semantic 疒 (“disease”) + phonetic 正 (OC *tjeŋ, *tjeŋs).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 症
alternative forms 癥

Alternative form of 證／证 (zhèng).

Pronunciation

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 症
Reading # 1/1
No. 17166
Phonetic
component 		正
Rime
group 		蒸
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		證
Old
Chinese 		/*tjɯŋs/
Notes 證晚起分化字

Definitions

症

  1. indication or sign of disease
  2. disease; illness
Synonyms
  • (disease):

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 症 – see 癥 (“lump in the abdomen; abdominal tumor; bowel obstruction”).
(This character is the simplified form of 癥).
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

症

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Compounds

Suffix

症(しょう) • (-shō) 

  1. (medicine) attached to the names of conditions

See also

Korean

Hanja

症 • (jeung) (hangeul 증, revised jeung, McCune–Reischauer chŭng, Yale cung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

症: Hán Nôm readings: chứng

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