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
  • On’yomi
    • (Tokyo) せーかんせ​んしょー [sèékáńséꜜǹshòò] (Nakadaka – [5])[1]
    • 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
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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