HSK 6 · Body

癌症 áizhèng “cancer” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 癌症 means

  1. cancer

How to say 癌症

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale癌ái2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale症zhèng4th tone, falling

癌症 in a sentence

  1. 他们从事癌症研究工作。

    Tāmen cóngshì áizhèng yánjiū gōngzuò.

    They are engaged in cancer research.

    Sentence #349560 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 科学家们还不知道怎么治疗癌症。

    Kēxuéjiāmen hái bù zhīdao zěnme zhìliáo áizhèng.

    Scientists still don’t know how to cure cancer.

    Sentence #816562 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 空气中的微粒可以引发癌症。

    Kōngqì zhōng de wēilì kěyǐ yǐnfā áizhèng.

    Tiny particles in the air can cause cancer.

    Sentence #796641 from Tatoeba

How 癌症 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 癌 (ái) with each of its parts in a different colour
癌áicancer; carcinoma
  • 疒sickness · nèMeaning part
  • 嵒cliffSound part

疒 hints at the meaning (sickness); 嵒 () hints at the sound. Compare it with ái.

The character 症 (zhèng) with each of its parts in a different colour
症zhèngdisease
  • 疒sickness · nèMeaning part
  • 正straight · zhēngSound part

疒 hints at the meaning (sickness); 正 (zhēng) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhèng.

How to write 癌症

癌 17 strokes · 症 10 strokes

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癌症 (áizhèng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 癌症 (áizhèng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 癌症

Words with 症

症状zhèngzhuàng · symptom

More words: People, Body & Health

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FAQs

癌症 (áizhèng) means “cancer”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it áizhèng: ái with a 2nd tone, then zhèng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 癌症 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type aizheng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 癌症 from the suggestions. Typing aizheng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
癌症 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.