藥

Information about character(s)

Radical: 艸
Radical Strokes: 6
Additional Strokes: 15
Total Strokes: 18
Simplified Form: 药
Variants: 葯薬

Pronunciation

Pinyin: yào, shuò, lüè
Cantonese: joek6
JapaneseKun: KUSURI
JapaneseOn: YAKU
Korean: YAK
Vietnamese: dược

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: drugs, pharmaceuticals, medicine

CE-Dict: medicine/drug/cure/CL:種|种[zhong3],服[fu4]

Soothill: Medicine, chemicals.

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.medication
2."suffix" in names of some compounds or mixtures

1.[Botany] an angelica
2.to wrap up

21 Century bidirectional science and technology dictionary: drug - 藥
medicine - 藥

朗道漢英字典 - Lang Dao: cure with medicine; drug; healer; medicine; remedy
【醫】 drug; pharmaceutical; pharmaco-; pharmacon; remedium; remedy

懶蟲簡明漢英詞典: drug; medicine; remedy; healer

說文解字 - Shuowen: 《艸部》藥治病艸。从艸樂聲。

康熙字典文字版 【申集上】【艸字部】藥
【唐韻】以灼切【韻會】弋約切，𠀤音躍。【說文】治病草。【史記·三皇本紀】神農氏甞百草，始有醫藥。【急就篇註】草木、金石、鳥獸、蟲魚之類，堪愈疾者，總名爲藥。　又【本草】芍藥。詳芍字註。　又療也。【詩·大雅】多將熇熇，不可救藥。【莊子·天地篇】有虞氏之藥瘍也。　又姓。【通志·氏族略】藥氏，望出河内，後漢南陽太守藥崧，晉有牙門藥冲。　又【韻會】式灼切，音鑠。灼藥，熱貌。【丘遲·思賢賦】心灼藥如傷。　又旅灼切，音略。【張衡·南都賦】歸鴈鳴鵽，黃稻鱻魚，以爲勺藥。【註】勺藥，五味之和。藥音略。【西溪叢語】言勺藥者，乃以魚肉等物爲醢食也。【韓退之·郾城聯句詩】五鼎調勺藥。又，難祈却老藥。上藥旅酌切，下藥以灼切，二藥不同音。　又【唐韻古音】醫藥之藥去聲，音効。　又【字彙補】與籞苑之籞同。李正己曰：園亭中藥闌，闌卽藥，藥卽闌，猶言圍援，非花藥之闌。《漢書·宣帝紀》：池藥未幸者，假與貧民。凡《漢書》闌入宮禁，闌字多从艸，則藥闌字義尤分明也。

Buddhism words and phrases medicines, healing herbs, drugs

CF-Dict: médicament/remède/empoisonner

Han-De-Dict: Medizin, Arznei, Arzneimittel, Medikament, pharmazeutische Mittel (u.E.) (S, Med)/Yao (u.E.) (Eig, Fam)