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Chinese symbol for “endocrine”

内分泌
nèi fēn mì
Traditional: 內分泌
endocrine (internal secretion, e.g. hormone)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for endocrine is 内分泌 (nèi fēn mì), defined as: endocrine (internal secretion, e.g. hormone).

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Characters and stroke order

内 nèi
inside
radical 13 ⼌ · 4 strokes
分 fēn
to divide, to allocate; fraction; small unit of time or other quantity
radical 18 ⼑ · 4 strokes
泌 mì
to seep out, to secrete
radical 85 ⽔ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 内分泌.

WordPinyinMeaning
内容 (內容)nèi róngcontent; substance; details; 项 (xiàng)
国内 (國內)guó nèidomestic; internal (to a country)
内部 (內部)nèi bùinterior; inside (part, section)
境内 (境內)jìng nèiwithin the borders; internal (to a country, province, city etc)
内地 (內地)nèi dìinland; interior
内阁 (內閣)nèi gé(government) cabinet
部分bù fenpart; portion; piece; Taiwan pr. [bu4fen4]
分析fēn xīto analyze; analysis
分泌fēn mìto secrete; secretion

See also: Japanese symbol for “endocrine”.

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.