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Chinese symbol for “narcolepsy”

猝睡症
cù shuì zhèng
narcolepsy

The closest CC-CEDICT match for narcolepsy is 猝睡症 (cù shuì zhèng), defined as: narcolepsy.

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Characters and stroke order

猝 cù
sudden, abrupt
radical 94 ⽝ · 11 strokes
睡 shuì
to sleep, to doze
radical 109 ⽬ · 13 strokes
症 zhèng
ailment, disease, illness
radical 104 ⽧ · 10 strokes

Other Chinese words for “narcolepsy”

WordPinyinMeaning
发作性嗜睡病 (發作性嗜睡病)fā zuò xìng shì shuì bìngnarcolepsy

Related words

Other words that share a character with 猝睡症.

WordPinyinMeaning
猝死cù sǐto die suddenly
猝不及防cù bù jí fángto be caught off guard; without warning
猝然cù ránsuddenly; abruptly
仓猝 (倉猝)cāng cùvariant of 仓促 (cāng cù)
猝发 (猝發)cù fāto occur unexpectedly
猝逝cù shìto die suddenly
睡觉 (睡覺)shuì jiàoto go to bed; to sleep
睡眠shuì miánsleep; to sleep
症状 (症狀)zhèng zhuàngsymptom (of an illness)

See also: Japanese symbol for “narcolepsy”.

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.