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Mythic Mandarin

西医 (xī yī): meaning and stroke order

西医 (xī yī) means Western medicine, a doctor trained in Western medicine.

西医

Simplified
西医
Traditional
西醫
Pinyin
xī yī

Stroke order of 西医

西

  • Xī the West; abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2]
  • xī west
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

医

  • yī medical; medicine
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 醫

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 西医

  1. xī yī Traditional 西醫
    • Western medicine
    • a doctor trained in Western medicine

Radicals of the characters

西
Radical 襾 (Kangxi radical 146) · 6 strokes · 一 on top, 𠁤 below
医
Radical 匸 (Kangxi radical 23) · 7 strokes · built from 匚 and 矢

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).