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治疗

zhì liáo

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 治療

治疗 (zhì liáo) means "to treat (an illness); treatment". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 治疗 means

1. to treat (an illness)
2. medical treatment
3. therapy

The characters in 治疗

• 治zhìto rule; to govern; to manage
• 疗liáoto treat; to cure; therapy

Example sentences

• 预防胜于治疗。
  Prevention is better than cure.
• 扭转治疗是酷刑。
  Conversion therapy is torture.
• 汤姆需要接受治疗。
  Tom needed treatment.
• 这个治疗的方法很棒。
  This is a great type of cure.
• 你必须坚持完成治疗。
  You must complete the treatment until the end.
• 这药可以治疗你的皮肤病。
  Zhè yào kěyǐ zhìliáo nǐ de pífūbìng.
  This medicine will cure you of your skin disease.

Words starting with 治疗

• 治疗师zhì liáo shītherapist
• 治疗法zhì liáo fǎtherapy

Words containing 治疗

• 光照治疗guāng zhào zhì liáolight therapy; phototherapy
• 化学治疗huà xué zhì liáochemotherapy
• 基因治疗jī yīn zhì liáogene therapy
• 根管治疗gēn guǎn zhì liáoroot canal therapy (dentistry)
• 物理治疗wù lǐ zhì liáophysiotherapy; physical therapy
• 职能治疗zhí néng zhì liáooccupational therapy
• 职能治疗师zhí néng zhì liáo shīoccupational therapist
• 完形心理治疗wán xíng xīn lǐ zhì liáoGestalt psychotherapy
• 放射治疗fàng shè zhì liáoradiotherapy
• 反射区治疗fǎn shè qū zhì liáoreflexology (alternative medicine)
• 高压氧治疗gāo yā yǎng zhì liáohyperbaric medicine; hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT); also 高压氧疗法
• 捏脊治疗niē jǐ zhì liáochiropractic (medicine)
• 脊椎指压治疗师jǐ zhuī zhǐ yā zhì liáo shīchiropractor

Where 治疗 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Health, Medical & Fatigue (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhì liáo correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.