Chinese symbol for “spay”

绝育

jué yù

Traditional: 絕育

to sterilize; to spay

The closest CC-CEDICT match for spay is 绝育 (jué yù), defined as: to sterilize; to spay.

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Characters and stroke order

绝 jué

to cut, to sever; to break off, to terminate

radical 120 ⽷ · 9 strokes

育 yù

to produce, to give birth to; to educate

radical 130 ⾁ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

絕 jué

Related words

Other words that share a character with 绝育.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
绝对 (絕對)	jué duì	absolute; unconditional
拒绝 (拒絕)	jù jué	to refuse; to decline; to reject
绝不 (絕不)	jué bù	in no way; not in the least; absolutely not
绝望 (絕望)	jué wàng	to despair; to give up all hope
绝大多数 (絕大多數)	jué dà duō shù	the vast majority
灭绝 (滅絕)	miè jué	to become extinct; to die out; to lose (sth abstract) completely
教育	jiào yù	to educate; to teach
体育 (體育)	tǐ yù	sports; physical education

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.