Chinese symbol for “anorexia”
厌食
yàn shí
Traditional: 厭食
anorexia
The closest CC-CEDICT match for anorexia is 厌食 (yàn shí), defined as: anorexia.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “anorexia”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 厌食.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 讨厌 (討厭) | tǎo yàn | to dislike; to loathe; annoying; troublesome |
| 厌恶 (厭惡) | yàn wù | to loathe; to hate |
| 厌倦 (厭倦) | yàn juàn | to be weary of; to be fed up with; to be bored with |
| 厌烦 (厭煩) | yàn fán | bored; fed up with sth; sick of sth |
| 讨人厌 (討人厭) | tǎo rén yàn | horrid |
| 贪得无厌 (貪得無厭) | tān dé wú yàn | avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied |
| 食品 | shí pǐn | foodstuff; food; provisions |
| 食物 | shí wù | food |
See also: Japanese symbol for “anorexia”.
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.