症状
しょうじょう · shoujou · JLPT N3 · noun
symptom
🤒 症状 = illness + state: the state an illness shows itself in
症 (shō) means illness or disease, and 状 (jō) means state or condition, as in 状態 (jōtai, state). Together: the condition an illness puts you in — symptoms. The two halves nearly rhyme: shō-jō.