Chinese symbol for “orthopedics”
骨科
gǔ kē
orthopedics; orthopedic surgery
The closest CC-CEDICT match for orthopedics is 骨科 (gǔ kē), defined as: orthopedics; orthopedic surgery.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “orthopedics”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 骨科.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 骨头 (骨頭) | gǔ tou | bone; measure word: 根 (gēn), 块 (kuài) |
| 骨干 (骨幹) | gǔ gàn | diaphysis (long segment of a bone); fig. backbone |
| 骨折 | gǔ zhé | to suffer a fracture; (of a bone) to break |
| 骨骼 | gǔ gé | bones; skeleton |
| 头骨 (頭骨) | tóu gǔ | skull |
| 骨灰 | gǔ huī | bone ash; cremation ashes; cremains |
| 科技 | kē jì | science and technology |
| 科学 (科學) | kē xué | science; scientific knowledge |
See also: Japanese symbol for “orthopedics”.
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.