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Chinese symbol for “canines”

犬科
quǎn kē
the canines

The closest CC-CEDICT match for canines is 犬科 (quǎn kē), defined as: the canines.

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Characters and stroke order

犬 quǎn
dog
radical 94 ⽝ · 4 strokes
科 kē
section, department; field, branch; science
radical 115 ⽲ · 9 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 犬科.

WordPinyinMeaning
警犬jǐng quǎnpolice dog
猎犬 (獵犬)liè quǎnhound; hunting dog
狂犬病kuáng quǎn bìngrabies
牧羊犬mù yáng quǎnsheepdog
鹰犬 (鷹犬)yīng quǎnhawks and hounds; (fig.) running dogs
犬齿 (犬齒)quǎn chǐcanine tooth
科技kē jìscience and technology
科学 (科學)kē xuéscience; scientific knowledge

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.