祛 — Chinese character
祛
qū
to expel, to disperse; to exorcise
- Pinyin
- qū
- Radical
- 113 ⽰ (Spirit)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 礻 去
- Formation
- ideographic — To banish 去 a spirit 礻; 去 also provides the pronunciation
Common words with 祛
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 祛除 | qū chú | to dispel; to clear |
| 祛风 (祛風) | qū fēng | to relieve (cold, rheumatic pain etc); lit. to dispel pathogenic wind (TCM) |
| 祛痰 | qū tán | to dispel phlegm (TCM) |
| 祛瘀 | qū yū | to dispel blood stasis (TCM) |
| 祛邪 | qū xié | to exorcise; to drive away evil spirits |
| 祛暑 | qū shǔ | to beat the summer heat |
| 祛魅 | qū mèi | to become disenchanted |
| 祛寒 | qū hán | to dispel cold (TCM) |
| 祛淤 | qū yū | variant of 祛瘀 (qū yū) |
| 祛疑 | qū yí | to dispel doubts |
| 祛痰药 (祛痰藥) | qū tán yào | medicine to dispel phlegm (TCM) |
English words written with 祛
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.