Chinese symbol for “cancer”
癌症
ái zhèng
cancer
The closest CC-CEDICT match for cancer is 癌症 (ái zhèng), defined as: cancer.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “cancer”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 癌症.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 乳腺癌 | rǔ xiàn ái | breast cancer |
| 肺癌 | fèi ái | lung cancer |
| 癌细胞 (癌細胞) | ái xì bāo | cancer cell |
| 肝癌 | gān ái | liver cancer |
| 抗癌 | kàng ái | anti-cancer |
| 症状 (症狀) | zhèng zhuàng | symptom (of an illness) |
| 综合症 (綜合症) | zōng hé zhèng | syndrome |
| 并发症 (併發症) | bìng fā zhèng | complications (undesired side-effect of medical procedure) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “cancer”.
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.