Chinese symbol for “treat”
治疗
zhì liáo
Traditional: 治療
to treat (an illness); medical treatment; therapy
The closest CC-CEDICT match for treat is 治疗 (zhì liáo), defined as: to treat (an illness); medical treatment; therapy.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “treat”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 对待 (對待) | duì dài | to treat; treatment |
| 对 (對) | duì | right; correct; towards; at; for |
| 医治 (醫治) | yī zhì | to treat (an illness); medical treatment |
| 疗 (療) | liáo | to treat; to cure |
| 看 | kàn | to see; to look at; to read |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 治疗.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 政治 | zhèng zhì | politics; political |
| 统治 (統治) | tǒng zhì | to rule (a country); to govern |
| 治理 | zhì lǐ | to govern; to administer |
| 自治区 (自治區) | zì zhì qū | autonomous region – a provincial-level administrative division of China with self-governance for ethnic minorities (five in total: Guangxi, |
| 自治 | zì zhì | autonomy |
| 医疗 (醫療) | yī liáo | medical treatment |
| 疗法 (療法) | liáo fǎ | therapy; treatment |
| 化疗 (化療) | huà liáo | chemotherapy |
See also: Japanese symbol for “treat”.
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.