Chinese symbol for “incurable”
无可救药
wú kě jiù yào
Traditional: 無可救藥
(idiom) (of an illness) incurable; (of a person, behavior etc) incorrigible; beyond any possibility of correction
The closest CC-CEDICT match for incurable is 无可救药 (wú kě jiù yào), defined as: (idiom) (of an illness) incurable; (of a person, behavior etc) incorrigible; beyond any possibility of correction.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “incurable”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 无可救药.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无法 (無法) | wú fǎ | unable to; incapable of |
| 无论 (無論) | wú lùn | no matter what or how; regardless of whether... |
| 毫无 (毫無) | háo wú | not in the least; to completely lack |
| 无限 (無限) | wú xiàn | unlimited; unbounded; infinite |
| 无关 (無關) | wú guān | unrelated; having nothing to do (with sth else) |
| 无数 (無數) | wú shù | countless; numberless |
| 可以 | kě yǐ | can; may |
| 可能 | kě néng | might (happen); possible |
| 拯救 | zhěng jiù | to save; to rescue |
| 药物 (藥物) | yào wù | medicaments; pharmaceuticals |
See also: Japanese symbol for “incurable”.
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.