Chinese symbol for “chemotherapy”
化疗
huà liáo
Traditional: 化療
chemotherapy
The closest CC-CEDICT match for chemotherapy is 化疗 (huà liáo), defined as: chemotherapy.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “chemotherapy”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 化疗.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 文化 | wén huà | culture; civilization |
| 变化 (變化) | biàn huà | (intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation |
| 现代化 (現代化) | xiàn dài huà | modernization; 个 (gè) |
| 化学 (化學) | huà xué | chemistry; chemical |
| 强化 (強化) | qiáng huà | to strengthen; to intensify |
| 转化 (轉化) | zhuǎn huà | to change; to turn; to convert; (genetics) to transform |
| 医疗 (醫療) | yī liáo | medical treatment |
| 治疗 (治療) | zhì liáo | to treat (an illness); medical treatment |
See also: Japanese symbol for “chemotherapy”.
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.