藥 (yào)
medicine
How 藥 is written
- Strokes
- 19
- Radical
- 艹 — grass
- Traditional
- 藥
- Simplified
- 药
Common words using 藥
- 中藥 zhōngyào
- (traditional) Chinese medicine; CL:服[fu4],種|种[zhong3]
- 吃藥 chīyào
- to take medicine
- 山藥 shānyao
- Dioscorea opposita; yam
- 藥店 yàodiàn
- pharmacy
- 藥物 yàowù
- medicaments; pharmaceuticals; medication
- 中草藥 zhōngcǎoyào
- Chinese herbal medicine
- 入藥 rùyào
- to use in medicine
- 制藥 zhìyào
- to manufacture medicine
- 吃錯藥 chīcuòyào
- confused (slang)
- 安眠藥 ānmiányào
- sleeping pill; CL:粒[li4]
- 對症下藥 duìzhèngxiàyào
- lit. to prescribe the right medicine for an illness (idiom); fig. to study a problem to find the right way to solve it; to take appropriate steps
- 彈藥 dànyào
- ammunition
藥 in a sentence
感冒要記得按時吃藥。
Gǎnmào yào jìdé ànshí chī yào.
“Remember to take medicine on time when you have a cold.”
How common is 藥?
藥 is the 661st most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 81.7% of all running text.
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