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癌

ái

HSK 6 Character

What 癌 means

1. cancer; (esp.) carcinoma

Example sentences

• 我有癌症。
  I have cancer.
• 她死于胃癌。
  Tā sǐ yú wèi'ái.
  She died of stomach cancer.
• 他死于肺癌。
  He died of lung cancer.
• 他怕得到肺癌。
  He is afraid of getting lung cancer.
• 他不是癌症死的。
  He did not die of cancer.
• 暴力是社会的癌症。
  Bàolì shì shèhuì de áizhèng.
  Violence is the cancer of our society.

Words starting with 癌

• 癌症ái zhèngcancer
• 癌细胞ái xì bāocancer cell
• 癌变ái biànto become cancerous; transformation to malignancy (of body cells)
• 癌前期ái qián qīprecancerous stage

Words containing 癌

• 肝癌gān áiliver cancer
• 肺癌fèi áilung cancer
• 致癌zhì áito cause cancer; carcinogenic
• 抗癌kàng áianti-cancer
• 胃癌wèi áistomach cancer
• 乳腺癌rǔ xiàn áibreast cancer
• 乳癌rǔ áibreast cancer
• 壁癌bì áipersistent mold on the wall; efflorescence
• 患癌huàn áito develop cancer
• 血癌xuè áileukemia
• 淋巴癌lín bā áilymphoma (lay term for 淋巴瘤
• 直男癌zhí nán ái(slang) extreme "straight-man" behavior marked by rigidity, emotional insensitivity, and…
• 终期癌zhōng qī áiterminal cancer
• 致癌物zhì ái wùcarcinogen
• 食道癌shí dào áiesophageal cancer
• 晚期癌症wǎn qī ái zhèngterminal cancer
• 致癌物质zhì ái wù zhìcarcinogen; cancer causing substance
• 基底细胞癌jī dǐ xì bāo áibasal cell carcinoma
• 皮肤癌pí fū áiskin cancer
• 腺癌xiàn áiadenocarcinoma
• 子宫颈癌zǐ gōng jǐng áicervical cancer
• 懒癌lǎn ái(humorous) extreme laziness; (colloquial) indolent cancer (esp. thyroid cancer)
• 下咽癌xià yān ái(medicine) hypopharyngeal cancer
• 鼻咽癌bí yān áicancers of the nose and throat; nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC)

Characters that look like 癌

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 瘾yǐnaddiction; craving
• 藤téngrattan; cane; vine
• 撼hànto shake; to vibrate
• 瘸quélame
• 藩fānfence; hedge; (literary) screen; barrier; vassal state
• 癞làiscabies; skin disease

Sounds the same

Read ái, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 挨to suffer; to endure; to pull through (hard times); to delay; to stall; to play for time…
• 皑(literary) white as snow
• 硙used in 硙硙
• 敳able (in administrating); to govern forcefully
• 啀to growl (of dog); to bare fangs
• 騃stupid; idiotic
• 捱variant of 挨