surgery (branch of medicine) in Mandarin

You can remember the meaning of 外科 with this easy mnemonic:

Are you sure you are capable of doing this surgery or do we need someone outside (外) of this division (科)?

Using mnemonics to remember the meaning of Chinese characters like can have an enormous impact on how long to learn Mandarin it takes.

• 科
• 外

• 额外
• 外遇
• 外婆
• 之外
• 外星人
• 外套
• 外科
• 例外
• 意外
• 以外
• 科学
• 科学家
• 外面
• 外表
• 另外
• 科技

The reading of 外科 is wài kē.

You can remember how to say 外科 with this useful mnemonic:

Why (wài) do you think I'm not capable (kē)? Is it because I have never conducted surgery before?

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