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药

yào · yao

Traditional 藥 / 葯

HSK 2

Meaning

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yào 藥

  1. medicine
  2. drug
  3. substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting)
  4. CL:種 / 种 (zhǒng),服 (fù),味 (wèi)
  5. to poison

yào 葯

  1. leaf of the iris
  2. variant of 藥 / 药 (yào)

In a sentence

2 examples
01

那(nà)个(ge)药(yào)的(de)话(huà)没(méi)有(yǒu)处(chǔ)方(fāng)是(shì)买(mǎi)不(bu)到(dào)的(de)。

You can't buy this medicine without a prescription.

Tatoeba: Chinese by crescat · English by AOCinJAPAN · CC BY 2.0 FR. Pinyin added or corrected.

02

医(yī)生(shēng)正(zhèng)寻(xún)找(zhǎo)对(duì)这(zhè)疾(jí)病(bìng)有(yǒu)效(xiào)的(de)药(yào)。

The doctor is looking for medicine that is effective for this illness.

Tatoeba: Chinese by basilhan · English by Swift · CC BY 2.0 FR. Pinyin added or corrected.

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