下药 (下藥) xiàyào

xiàyào verb to prescribe medicine; to poison; to slip a drug (into somebody's drink etc)
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '下藥')

Contained in

• 对症下药(對症下藥) to prescribe the right medicine for an illness; to study a problem to find the right way to solve it

Word is mentioned most frequently in

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• 卷一百九十一 列傳第一百四十一: 方伎 Volume 191 Biographies 141: The Arts Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 2
• 第六十九回 Chapter 69 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 2
• 第八十八回 Chapter 88 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 1
• 第二回 Chapter 64 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
• 第二回 Chapter 79 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
• 卷二百四十六 列傳第一百三十四 滿朝薦 江秉謙 侯震暘 王允成 Volume 246 Biographies 134: Man Chaojian, Jiang Bingqian, Hou Zhenyang, Wang Yuncheng History of Ming 明史 — count: 1
• 第二十七回 Chapter 27 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
• 第一百二十回 Chapter 120 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
• 第二十六回 Chapter 26 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
• 卷二百九十九 列傳第一百八十七 方伎 Volume 299 Biographies 187: Divination History of Ming 明史 — count: 1

Collocations

• 诊脉下药 (診脈下藥) 輪流斟酌診脈下藥 — Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢, 第二回 Chapter 21 — count: 3
• 不肯下药 (不肯下藥) 已是不肯下藥 — The Scholars 儒林外史, 第十五回 Chapter 15 — count: 2