症zhèng
ailment, disease, illness. 10 strokes, radical 疒, first met in HSK 6.
Pinyin zhèngStrokes 10Radical 疒Band HSK 6Words 1
What 症 is made of
疒 (nè, sickness) and 正 (zhèng, straight).
疒 carries the meaning — sickness — and 正 carries the sound.
How to write 症
Strokes 1–5 write 疒, then strokes 6–10 write 正.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 症
Words that use 症
| 症状 | symptom 指生病时表现出的现象 知名医生介绍常见的症状。A noted doctor described the common symptoms. Lesson 688, 医生义诊 · 风云际会与鼎盛宏猷 · Historical Moments & Prosperous Enterprises |
Characters that share the sound part 正
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 疒
All 8 of them, and what the radical means, on the 疒 radical page.