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cancer Pinyin ai2 is the new reading used in China; yan2 is the old reading still used in Taiwan.
Default PoS:  Additional PoS: Stroke count: 17
Level: 3
Radical: 疒 (#104)
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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癌症
ngaam4 zing3 = cancer
子宮頸癌
zi2 gung1 geng2 ngaam4 = cervical cancer
肝癌
gon1 ngaam4 = cancer of the liver
肺癌
fai3 ngaam4 = lung cancer
胃癌
wai6 ngaam4 = gastric cancer
骨癌
gwat1 ngaam4 = bone cancer
乳癌
jyu5 ngaam4 = breast cancer
前列腺癌
cin4 lit6 sin3 ngaam4 = prostate cancer
語癌
jyu5 ngaam4 = extremely poor formulation, big grammatical mistake 粵
致癌物質
zi3 ngaam4 mat6 zat1 = carcinogen
淋巴癌
lam4 baa1 ngaam4 = lymphoma, lymphomas
血癌
hyut3 ngaam4 = leukaemia (leukemia)
癌病
ngaam4 beng6 = carcinomatosis, carcinosis
基底細胞癌
gei1 dai2 sai3 baau1 ngaam4 = Basal cell carcinoma
子宮癌
zi2 gung1 ngaam4 = [n] cancer of the uterus; hysterocarcinoma; metrocarcinoma
窮癌
kung4 ngaam4 = poor cancer
富癌
fu3 ngaam4 = rich cancer |
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Legend 國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese. 粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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Decimal representation of this word: 癌
Unicode code for this character: U+764c (off-site link)
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Decimal representation of this word: 癌
Unicode code for this character: U+764c (off-site link)
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