性感染症

Japanese

Kanji in this term
性	感	染	症
せい Grade: 5	かん Grade: 3	せん Grade: 6	しょう Grade: S
on’yomi

Etymology

From 性(せい) (sei, “sex”) + 感染(かんせん) (kansen, “infection”) + 症(しょう) (shō, “syndrome, disease”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) せーかんせ​んしょー [sèékáńséꜜǹshòò] (Nakadaka – [5])
• IPA^(key): [se̞ːkã̠ɰ̃sẽ̞ɰ̃ɕo̞ː]

Noun

性(せい)感(かん)染(せん)症(しょう) • (seikansenshō) ^{←せいかんせんしやう (seikansensyau)?}

1. (pathology) venereal disease (VD), sexually transmitted disease (STD)

References

• Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN