药藥 in English

Measure word

• 种 zhǒng seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts attested
• 味 wèi taste; smell; (fig.) (noun suffix) feel; quality; sense; (TCM) classifier for ingredients of a medicine prescription attested
• 服 fù clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument)... attested
• 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use

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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 藥, the traditional character: 药 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Bronze script 西周晚期
• Clerical script 西晉
• See all 12 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 万一你生病了，吃这个药。

  Take this medicine in case you get sick.

• 他是个无可救药的家伙。

  He's a hopeless case.

• 他误服了毒药。

  He took poison by mistake.

• 你在买这药之前应该问一下药剂师的建议。

  You should consult with a pharmacist before buying that medicine.

• 别忘了吃药。

  Don't forget to take your medicine.

• 医生给您开了药。

  The doctor has prescribed you medicine.

• 年轻的药剂师决定要开一家药房。

  The young chemist decided to open a pharmacy.

All example sentences with 药