药 (藥) yào
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yào
noun
a pharmaceutical; medication; medicine; a drug; a remedy
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Used in both literary and modern Chinese (ABC 'yào' n; NCCED '药' 1). For example, in literary Chinese, 種種藥草。合和米麯甘蔗汁中。能變成酒。 'Take many kinds of medicinal herbs and mix them together with rice, yeast, and sugar cane juice and they will turn into wine.' (Collection of Meanings and Terms in Translation, Scroll 3, T 2131 翻譯名義集‧卷第三) -
yào
noun
a chemical
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Used in both literary and modern Chinese. For example, 火药 'gunpowder' (ABC 'yào' n; NCCED '药' 4) -
yào
verb
to cure
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (ABC 'yào' v; NCCED '药' 2) -
yào
verb
to poison
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (ABC 'yào' n/v; NCCED '药' 3)
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- 调药刀(調藥刀) spatula
- 葫芦里卖的是什么药(葫蘆裡賣的是什麼藥) what has (he) got up (his) sleeve?; what's going on?
- 药典(藥典) pharmacopoeia
- 狗皮膏药(狗皮膏藥) dogskin plaster, used in TCM for treating contusions, rheumatism etc; quack medicine; sham goods
- 传统中国医药(傳統中國醫藥) Chinese traditional medicine
- 制药厂(製藥廠) pharmaceutical company / drugs manufacturing factory
- 药方(藥方) prescription
- 药店(藥店) pharmacy
- 药检(藥檢) drugs test (e.g. on athletes)
- 抗抑郁药(抗抑鬱藥) antidepressant
- 药用价值(藥用價值) medicinal value
- 生药(生藥) unprocessed medicinal herb
- 药膳(藥膳) medicinal cuisine
- 降血压药(降血壓藥) antihypertensive drug
- 西药(西藥) Western medicine
- 春药(春藥) aphrodisiac
- 杀鼠药(殺鼠藥) rat poison
- 救药(救藥) to cure
- 药棉(藥棉) sterilized cotton (used for medical swabs)
- 药苗(藥苗) immunization
- 药局(藥局) pharmacy; dispensary
- 杀蠹药(殺蠹藥) mothicide
- 煎药(煎藥) to decoct herbal medicine
- 药丸(藥丸) pill
- 药签(藥籤) medical swab
- 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
- 药食同源(藥食同源) food and medicine come from the same source
- 药疹(藥疹) a skin rash from an alergic reaction to medication
- 原子爆破弹药(原子爆破彈藥) atomic demolition munition
- 眼药(眼藥) eye drops; eye ointment
- 镇痛药(鎮痛藥) analgesic
- 药剂士(藥劑士) druggist; pharmacist
- 灵丹妙药(靈丹妙藥) a miraculous cure
- 抗药(抗藥) drug-resistance (of a pathogen)
- 安眠药(安眠藥) sleeping pill
- 灵药(靈藥) legendary magic potion of immortals; panacea; wonder solution to a problem
- 没药(沒藥) Myrrh
- 迷幻药(迷幻藥) hallucinogen; psychedelic drug
- 末药(末藥) myrrh
- 汤药(湯藥) medicine; tisane; decoction
- 炸药(炸藥) dynamite; an explosive
- 吃错药(吃錯藥) to have taken the wrong medicine; (of one's behavior etc) different than usual; abnormal
- 对症发药(對症發藥) to prescribe the right medicine for an illness; to study a problem to find the right way to solve it
- 药用(藥用) medicinal use; pharmaceutical
- 坐药(坐藥) suppository
- 拟阿拖品药物(擬阿拖品藥物) atropinemimetic drug
- 镇静药(鎮靜藥) sedative
- 服药(服藥) to take medicine
- 药商(藥商) druggist
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- 第六十九回 Chapter 69 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 40
- 卷四百七十二 列傳第二百三十一 姦臣二 蔡京弟:卞 子:攸 翛 族子:崈 趙良嗣 張覺 郭藥師 Volume 472 Biographies 231: Treacherous Officials 2 - Cai Jing and younger brother: Bian, sons: You, Shu, descendant: Chong, Zhao Liangsi, Zhang Jue, Guo Yaoshi History of Song 宋史 — count: 39
- 卷四十四 志第二十四: 職官三 Volume 44 Treatises 24: Government Service 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 26
- 卷四百六十二 列傳第二百二十一 方技下 賀蘭棲眞 柴通玄 甄棲眞 楚衍 僧志言 僧懷丙 許希 龐安時 錢乙 僧智緣 郭天信 魏漢津 王老志 王仔昔 林靈素 皇甫坦 王克明 莎衣道人 孫守榮 Volume 462 Biographies 221: Medicine and Divination 2 - He Lanqizhen, Chai Tongxuan, Zhen Qizhen, Chu Yan, Seng Zhiyan, Seng Huaibing, Xu Xi, Pang Anshi, Qian Yi, Seng Zhiyuan, Guo Tianxin, Wei Hanjin, Wang Laozhi, Wang Zixi, Lin Lingsu, Huang Futan, Wang Keming, Sha Yidaoren, Sun Shourong History of Song 宋史 — count: 22
- 卷七十二 列傳第二十二: 虞世南 李百藥 褚亮 Volume 72 Biographies 22: Yu Shinian, Li Baiyao, Chuliang Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 21
- 卷八十二 列傳第二十: 郭藥師子:安國 耶律塗山 烏延胡里改 烏延吾里補 蕭恭 完顏習不主 紇石烈胡剌 耶律恕 郭企忠 烏孫訛論 顏盞門都 僕散渾坦 鄭建充 烏古論三合 移剌溫 蕭仲恭子:拱 蕭仲宣 高松 海陵諸子光英 元壽 矧思阿補 廣陽 Volume 82 Biographies 20: Guo Yaoshi son: Anguo, Yelu Tushan, Wuyanhuligai, Wuyanwulibu, Xiao Gong, Wanyanxibuzhu, Geshiliehula, Yelu Shu, Guo Qizhong, Wusunelun, Yanzhanmendou, Pusanhuntan, Zheng Jianchong, Wugulunsanhe, Yi Lawen, Xiao Zhonggong son: Gong, Xiao Zhongxuan, Gao Song, Hailingzhuziguangying, Yuan Shou, Shen Siabu, Guang Yang History of Jin 金史 — count: 21
- 卷二百〇七 志第一百六十 藝文六 Volume 207 Treatises 160: Arts and Literature 6 History of Song 宋史 — count: 20
- 卷34 志第29 經籍三 Volume 34 Treatises 29: Bibliography 3 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 20
- 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: 20
- 第二回 Chapter 51 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 18
Collocations
- 饮药 (飲藥) 飲藥 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曲禮下》 Summary of the Rules of Propriety Part 2 — count: 25
- 药杀 (藥殺) 止進藥而藥殺也 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 9
- 尝药 (嘗藥) 許世子不知嘗藥 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 8
- 药自杀 (藥自殺) 乃飲藥自殺 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《齊悼惠王世家》 House of Prince Daohui of Qi — count: 8
- 药死 (藥死) 遂飲藥死 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《袁盎鼂錯列傳》 Biographies of Yuan Ang and Chao Cuo — count: 6
- 进药 (進藥) 止進藥而藥殺也 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 6
- 百药 (百藥) 聚畜百藥 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 5
- 奇药 (奇藥) 臣等求芝奇藥僊者常弗遇 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《秦始皇本紀》 Annals of Qin Shi Huang — count: 4
- 药言 (藥言) 藥言先獻於貴 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷一 君道 Chapter 1: The Way of the Ruler — count: 4
- 勺药 (勺藥) 贈之以勺藥 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧鄭‧溱洧 Lessons from the states - Odes of Zheng - Zhen Wei — count: 4