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药yào
medicine
Definitions
Chinese > English | ||
药 | ||
1. Simplified form of 藥 | ||
2. Simplified form of 葯 | ||
3. usage. In mainland China, 藥, rather than 葯 is listed officially as the traditional form of | ||
葯 | yào, yuè | |
1. Angelica dahurica | ||
2. orris root | ||
3. leaf of the iris | ||
4. leaf of the Angelica dahurica | ||
5. Variant of 藥 | ||
6. usage. In modern Taiwan, is still considered a variant form (異體字) of 藥. | ||
7. usage. In mainland China, 藥, rather than is listed officially as the traditional form of 药. | ||
藥 | yào | |
1. medicine; drug; pharmaceutical | ||
吃藥 - to take medicine; (slang) to take illicit drugs | ||
同樣 的 藥 為什麼 價格 相xiāng差chà 很 多? - Why do prices for the same medicine differ so much? | ||
2. substance used for a particular purpose (e.g. poisoning, fermenting, explosion) | ||
下藥 - to poison | ||
3. Short for 芍藥 | ||
4. to treat; to cure | ||
5. to poison | ||
6. Only used in 灼藥 | ||
7. Only used in 勺藥 | ||
Chinese > Chinese | ||
药 | ||
1. (正字;葯) | ||
English > Chinese | ||
medicine | ||
1. 治療 | ||
2. 藥物 | ||
3. 醫學 | ||
4. 內科 | ||
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