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Chinese symbol for “surgery”

外科
wài kē
surgery (branch of medicine)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for surgery is 外科 (wài kē), defined as: surgery (branch of medicine).

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

外 wài
out, outside, external; foreign; in addition
radical 36 ⼣ · 5 strokes
科 kē
section, department; field, branch; science
radical 115 ⽲ · 9 strokes

Other Chinese words for “surgery”

WordPinyinMeaning
外科手术 (外科手術)wài kē shǒu shùsurgery
外科学 (外科學)wài kē xuésurgery
手术 (手術)shǒu shù(surgical) operation; surgery

Related words

Other words that share a character with 外科.

WordPinyinMeaning
另外lìng wàiadditional; in addition
此外cǐ wàibesides; in addition; moreover; furthermore
外国 (外國)wài guóforeign country
国外 (國外)guó wàiabroad; external (affairs)
海外hǎi wàioverseas; abroad
之外zhī wàioutside; excluding
科技kē jìscience and technology
科学 (科學)kē xuéscience; scientific knowledge

See also: Japanese symbol for “surgery”.

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.

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