Chinese symbol for “symptom”
症状
zhèng zhuàng
Traditional: 症狀
symptom (of an illness)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for symptom is 症状 (zhèng zhuàng), defined as: symptom (of an illness).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “symptom”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 病征 (病徵) | bìng zhēng | symptom (of a disease) |
| 病状 (病狀) | bìng zhuàng | symptom (of a disease) |
| 征状 (徵狀) | zhēng zhuàng | symptom |
| 征 (徵) | zhēng | to invite; to recruit |
| 征候 (徵候) | zhēng hòu | sign; indication; symptom |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 症状.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 癌症 | ái zhèng | cancer |
| 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) |
| 后遗症 (後遺症) | hòu yí zhèng | (medicine) sequelae; residual effects |
| 病症 | bìng zhèng | disease; illness |
| 状态 (狀態) | zhuàng tài | condition; state; state of affairs |
| 状况 (狀況) | zhuàng kuàng | condition; state; situation |
| 现状 (現狀) | xiàn zhuàng | current situation |
See also: Japanese symbol for “symptom”.
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.