Chinese symbol for “intestine”
肠管
cháng guǎn
Traditional: 腸管
intestine; gut
The closest CC-CEDICT match for intestine is 肠管 (cháng guǎn), defined as: intestine; gut.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 肠管.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 肠道 (腸道) | cháng dào | intestines; gut |
| 香肠 (香腸) | xiāng cháng | sausage; measure word: 根 (gēn) |
| 肠胃 (腸胃) | cháng wèi | stomach and intestine; digestive system |
| 肠子 (腸子) | cháng zi | intestines |
| 大肠 (大腸) | dà cháng | the large intestine |
| 直肠 (直腸) | zhí cháng | rectum (anatomy) |
| 管理 | guǎn lǐ | to supervise; to manage |
| 尽管 (儘管) | jǐn guǎn | despite; although |
See also: Japanese symbol for “intestine”.
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.