Chinese symbol for “prosthesis”
义肢
yì zhī
Traditional: 義肢
artificial limb; prosthesis
The closest CC-CEDICT match for prosthesis is 义肢 (yì zhī), defined as: artificial limb; prosthesis.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “prosthesis”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 义肢.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 意义 (意義) | yì yì | sense; meaning |
| 主义 (主義) | zhǔ yì | -ism; ideology |
| 社会主义 (社會主義) | shè huì zhǔ yì | socialism |
| 正义 (正義) | zhèng yì | justice; righteousness; just; righteous |
| 定义 (定義) | dìng yì | definition; to define |
| 名义 (名義) | míng yì | name; titular |
| 肢体 (肢體) | zhī tǐ | limb; limbs and trunk |
| 四肢 | sì zhī | the four limbs of the body |
See also: Japanese symbol for “prosthesis”.
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.