祛
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sacrifice to drive away calamity; to dispel; to drive away; to remove
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 示 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 祛
- Common rank
- #3,105
- Unicode
- U+795B
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Formation & memory
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How 祛 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
To banish 去 a spirit 礻; 去 also provides the pronunciation
Words with 祛
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 祛风 | to relieve (cold, rheumatic pain etc); lit. to dispel pathogenic wind (TCM) | |
| 祛除 | to dispel; to clear | |
| 祛寒 | to dispel cold (TCM) | |
| 祛疑 | to dispel doubts | |
| 祛痰药 | medicine to dispel phlegm (TCM) | |
| 祛邪 | to exorcise; to drive away evil spirits | |
| 祛暑 | to beat the summer heat | |
| 祛淤 | variant of 祛瘀[qu1 yu1] | |
| 祛魅 | to become disenchanted | |
| 祛痰 | to dispel phlegm (TCM) | |
| 祛瘀 | to dispel blood stasis (TCM) |