Chinese symbol for “exorcise”
祛邪
qū xié
to exorcise; to drive away evil spirits
The closest CC-CEDICT match for exorcise is 祛邪 (qū xié), defined as: to exorcise; to drive away evil spirits.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “exorcise”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 驱魔 (驅魔) | qū mó | to drive out devils; to exorcise |
| 驱魔赶鬼 (驅魔趕鬼) | qū mó gǎn guǐ | to exorcise; to drive out evil spirits |
| 除邪 | chú xié | to guard against evil; to exorcise |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 祛邪.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 祛除 | qū chú | to dispel; to clear |
| 祛风 (祛風) | qū fēng | to relieve (cold, rheumatic pain etc); lit. to dispel pathogenic wind (TCM) |
| 祛痰 | qū tán | to dispel phlegm (TCM) |
| 祛瘀 | qū yū | to dispel blood stasis (TCM) |
| 祛暑 | qū shǔ | to beat the summer heat |
| 邪恶 (邪惡) | xié è | sinister; vicious |
| 邪教 | xié jiào | evil cult |
| 邪魔 | xié mó | evil spirit |
See also: Japanese symbol for “exorcise”.
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.