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Chinese symbol for “therapist”

治疗师
zhì liáo shī
Traditional: 治療師
therapist; (in video games or fantasy settings etc) healer

The closest CC-CEDICT match for therapist is 治疗师 (zhì liáo shī), defined as: therapist; (in video games or fantasy settings etc) healer.

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Characters and stroke order

治 zhì
to administer, to govern, to regulate
radical 85 ⽔ · 8 strokes
疗 liáo
cured, healed; to recover
radical 104 ⽧ · 7 strokes
师 shī
teacher, professional, master
radical 50 ⼱ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 治疗师.

WordPinyinMeaning
政治zhèng zhìpolitics; political
治疗 (治療)zhì liáoto treat (an illness); medical treatment
统治 (統治)tǒng zhìto rule (a country); to govern
治理zhì lǐto govern; to administer
自治区 (自治區)zì zhì qūautonomous region – a provincial-level administrative division of China with self-governance for ethnic minorities (five in total: Guangxi,
自治zì zhìautonomy
医疗 (醫療)yī liáomedical treatment
疗法 (療法)liáo fǎtherapy; treatment
老师 (老師)lǎo shīteacher

See also: Japanese symbol for “therapist”.

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.