Chinese symbol for “dementia”
痴呆症
chī dāi zhèng
dementia
The closest CC-CEDICT match for dementia is 痴呆症 (chī dāi zhèng), defined as: dementia.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “dementia”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 痴呆症.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 白痴 | bái chī | idiocy; idiot |
| 痴迷 | chī mí | infatuated; obsessed |
| 痴呆 | chī dāi | stupid; dull; (medicine) dementia |
| 痴情 (癡情) | chī qíng | infatuation |
| 痴心 | chī xīn | infatuation |
| 呆子 | dāi zi | fool; sucker |
| 惊呆 (驚呆) | jīng dāi | stupefied; stunned |
| 发呆 (發呆) | fā dāi | to stare blankly; to be stunned |
| 症状 (症狀) | zhèng zhuàng | symptom (of an illness) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “dementia”.
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.