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癌症

ái zhèng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

癌症 (ái zhèng) means "cancer". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 癌症 means

1. cancer

The characters in 癌症

• 癌áicancer; (esp.) carcinoma
• 症zhèngdisease; illness

Example sentences

• 我有癌症。
  I have 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.
• 癌症是人类的大敌。
  Cancer is a great enemy of humanity.
• 医生治好了他的癌症。
  Yīshēng zhìhǎo le tā de áizhèng.
  The doctor cured him of his cancer.
• 我弟弟去年死于癌症。
  My brother died of cancer last year.

Words containing 癌症

• 晚期癌症wǎn qī ái zhèngterminal cancer

Where 癌症 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · āi–hē (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read ái zhèng correctly.
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