Mnemonic
Your illness produces bizarre symptoms—purple spots, glowing eyes, floating hair. The doctor says the only correct response is to document every single symptom. By correctly reading each sign of the illness, she finally finds a cure.
Additional thoughts
Visualize the sickness radical (疒) wrapping around the correct radical (正) like a medical chart. Symptoms are what an illness correctly reveals about itself—the body's honest, correct signals that something is wrong.Quick recall
An illness is correctly diagnosed only by reading its symptoms.Details
The keyword for 症 is symptoms. This kanji refers to the outward signs or manifestations of a disease or illness. It is used in medical and everyday contexts to describe the observable conditions that indicate something is wrong with a person's health. By extension, it can also refer to a general condition or syndrome characterized by a particular set of traits.
- On'yomi
- しょう