HSK 6 · Body

症状 zhèngzhuàng “symptom” in Chinese

Traditional 症狀

What 症状 means

  1. symptom
  2. symptom (of an illness)

How to say 症状

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale症zhèng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale状zhuàng4th tone, falling

症状 in a sentence

  1. 你有什么症状？

    Nǐ yǒu shénme zhèngzhuàng?

    What symptoms do you have?

    Sentence #844453 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 她吃了中药，减轻了她的症状。

    Tā chī le zhōngyào, jiǎnqīng le tā de zhèngzhuàng.

    She took Chinese medicine, which eased her symptoms.

    Sentence #1616576 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 这孩子有水痘的症状。

    Zhè háizi yǒu shuǐdòu de zhèngzhuàng.

    The child has symptoms of chickenpox.

    Sentence #885823 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 症状 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 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.

The character 状 (zhuàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
状zhuàngform; appearance; shape
  • 丬half of tree trunk · qiángSound part
  • 犬dog · quǎnMeaning part

犬 hints at the meaning (dog); 丬 (qiáng) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhuàng.

How to write 症状

症 10 strokes · 状 7 strokes

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

Words related to 症状

Words with 症

癌症áizhèng · cancer

Words with 状

形状xíngzhuàng · form状况zhuàngkuàng · condition状态zhuàngtài · condition现状xiànzhuàng · current situation

More words: People, Body & Health

眼色yǎnsè · meaningful look眼神yǎnshén · look in one’s eyes遗传yíchuán · genetic眨zhǎ · to blink脂肪zhīfáng · fat (body or dietary)指甲zhǐjia · fingernail知觉zhījué · perception肿瘤zhǒngliú · tumour

FAQs

症状 (zhèngzhuàng) means “symptom” or “symptom (of an illness)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhèngzhuàng: zhèng with a 4th tone, then zhuàng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 症状 is written 症狀. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhengzhuang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 症状 from the suggestions. Typing zhengzhuang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
症状 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.