Chinese symbol for “alexia”

失读症

shī dú zhèng

Traditional: 失讀症

alexia

The closest CC-CEDICT match for alexia is 失读症 (shī dú zhèng), defined as: alexia.

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Characters and stroke order

失 shī

to lose; to make a mistake, to neglect

radical 37 ⼤ · 5 strokes

读 dú

to study, to learn; to read, to pronounce

radical 149 ⾔ · 10 strokes

症 zhèng

ailment, disease, illness

radical 104 ⽧ · 10 strokes

Traditional forms

讀 dú

Related words

Other words that share a character with 失读症.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
失去	shī qù	to lose
失败 (失敗)	shī bài	to be defeated; to lose
消失	xiāo shī	to disappear; to fade away
损失 (損失)	sǔn shī	loss; damage
失望	shī wàng	disappointed; to lose hope
失业 (失業)	shī yè	unemployment; to lose one's job
阅读 (閱讀)	yuè dú	to read
读者 (讀者)	dú zhě	reader
症状 (症狀)	zhèng zhuàng	symptom (of an illness)

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.