药

藥traditional

HSK 2#701 by frequencyradical 艹

yào["n"]

medicine; drug; substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting); to poison; leaf of the iris

Measure words: 种, 服, 味

Examples

我吃了药。

I took the medicine.

这是个据药。

This medicine has a strong effect.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.