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手术

shǒu shù 3–4

(surgical) operation; surgery

HSK level
HSK 4
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 4
Characters
2
手 · 术
Syllables
2
shǒu shù
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,041

Part of speech: n,v,vn

Character by character

  • 手shǒu4 strokesHSK 1hand
  • 术shù5 strokesHSK 3 traditional 術art, skill, special feat; method, technique

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我需要做手术吗?

    Wǒ xū yào zuò shǒu shù ma

    Do I need surgery?

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 手术. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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