IDENTITY
治zhìto govern; to treat (illness)
HSK 3Top 250
CORE MEANING
to govern; to treat (illness)
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to treat (illness)HSK3
- 2.to governHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 氵water radical (shuǐ)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰氵台
- water (flood control)
- gives the sound zhì (historical)
USAGE
Common words
政治zhèngzhìpolitics
治疗zhìliáoto treat
治安zhì’ānpublic order
Graded examples
医生在给他治病。Yīshēng zài gěi tā zhìbìng.HSK4
The doctor is treating his illness.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 冶
LEARNING
Memory aid
Managing water (氵) from the platform (台) — controlling floods, governing, treating.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #250
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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