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Chinese symbol for “sterility”

不育症
bù yù zhèng
sterility; barrenness

The closest CC-CEDICT match for sterility is 不育症 (bù yù zhèng), defined as: sterility; barrenness.

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Characters and stroke order

不 bù
no, not, un-; negative prefix
radical 1 ⼀ · 4 strokes
育 yù
to produce, to give birth to; to educate
radical 130 ⾁ · 8 strokes
症 zhèng
ailment, disease, illness
radical 104 ⽧ · 10 strokes

Other Chinese words for “sterility”

WordPinyinMeaning
不育性bù yù xìngsterility

Related words

Other words that share a character with 不育症.

WordPinyinMeaning
不是bù shìno; is not
不能bù néngcannot; must not
不会 (不會)bù huìimprobable; unlikely
不过 (不過)bù guòonly; merely
不同bù tóngdifferent; distinct
教育jiào yùto educate; to teach
体育 (體育)tǐ yùsports; physical education
发育 (發育)fā yùto develop; to mature
症状 (症狀)zhèng zhuàngsymptom (of an illness)

See also: Japanese symbol for “sterility”.

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.