shǒu shù nièdictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
surgical forceps
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Original source entry:

手術鑷 手术镊 [shou3 shu4 nie4] /surgical forceps/

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Other forms in these source records: 手術鑷

  • 手
    shǒu

    hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL:雙|双[shuāng],隻|只[zhī]

  • 术
    zhú

    (bound form) Atractylodes (genus of perennial herbs in the daisy family, used in TCM)

    shù

    (bound form) art / skill / discipline / (bound form) method / technique / strategy

  • 镊
    niè

    (bound form) tweezers / to use tweezers (to grasp, pick up, or pull out etc, depending on whether the following resultative verb is 住[zhù] or 起[qǐ] or 出[chū] etc)

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