癌 (ngaam4 | ai2 yan2) : cancer

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癌

ngaam4

ai2 yan2

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.

癌

This word has been viewed 6535 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 24th Apr 2014 11:00

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癌症 ngaam4 zing3 ai2 (PRC) yan2 (TW) zheng4 = cancer

子宮頸癌 zi2 gung1 geng2 ngaam4 zi3 gong1 jing3 ai2 = cervical cancer

肝癌 gon1 ngaam4 = cancer of the liver

肺癌 fai3 ngaam4 fei4 ai2 = lung cancer

胃癌 wai6 ngaam4 = gastric cancer

骨癌 gwat1 ngaam4 = bone cancer

乳癌 jyu5 ngaam4 ru3 ai2 = breast cancer

前列腺癌 cin4 lit6 sin3 ngaam4 qian2 lie4 xian4 ai2 = prostate cancer

語癌 jyu5 ngaam4 = extremely poor formulation, big grammatical mistake 粵

致癌物質 zi3 ngaam4 mat6 zat1 zhi4 ai2 wu4 zhi4 = carcinogen
See all 17 compounds (CantoDict reports 15 compounds in total, which would seem to be an error - please report this on the CantoDict forum)

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Decimal representation of this word: 癌
Unicode code for this character: U+764c (off-site link)

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