Chinese symbol for “caries”
齿龋
chǐ qǔ
Traditional: 齒齲
tooth decay; caries
The closest CC-CEDICT match for caries is 齿龋 (chǐ qǔ), defined as: tooth decay; caries.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 齿龋.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 牙齿 (牙齒) | yá chǐ | tooth; dental |
| 齿轮 (齒輪) | chǐ lún | (machine) gear; pinion (gear wheel) |
| 不齿 (不齒) | bù chǐ | to despise; to hold in contempt |
| 锯齿 (鋸齒) | jù chǐ | sawtooth |
| 咬牙切齿 (咬牙切齒) | yǎo yá qiè chǐ | (idiom) to gnash one's teeth; to fume with rage |
| 难以启齿 (難以啟齒) | nán yǐ qǐ chǐ | to be too embarrassed to mention sth (idiom); to find it hard to speak about sth |
| 龋齿 (齲齒) | qǔ chǐ | tooth decay; dental caries; decayed tooth; rotten tooth |
| 防龋 (防齲) | fáng qǔ | (dentistry) to prevent tooth decay; anti-cavity; anti-caries |
See also: Japanese symbol for “caries”.
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.