Chinese symbol for “amputation”
截肢
jié zhī
amputation (medicine); to amputate
The closest CC-CEDICT match for amputation is 截肢 (jié zhī), defined as: amputation (medicine); to amputate.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 截肢.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 截至 | jié zhì | up to (a time); by (a time) |
| 截图 (截圖) | jié tú | (computing) screenshot; to take a screenshot |
| 截止 | jié zhǐ | to end; to close; (electricity) cut-off |
| 拦截 (攔截) | lán jié | to intercept |
| 截然不同 | jié rán bù tóng | entirely different; different as black and white |
| 肢体 (肢體) | zhī tǐ | limb; limbs and trunk |
| 四肢 | sì zhī | the four limbs of the body |
| 肢解 | zhī jiě | to dismember; (fig.) to break into parts |
See also: Japanese symbol for “amputation”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.