薬

Translingual

Han character

薬 (radical 140 艸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿戈人木 (TIOD), composition ⿱艹楽)

1. drugs, pharmaceuticals, medicine

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1062, character 44
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32188
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 5, page 3303, character 5
• Unihan data for U+85AC

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Cantonese

Hanzi

薬 (Yale yeuk3)

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Japanese

Kanji

薬 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 藥)

Readings

• On: やく (yaku)
• Kun: くす (kusu), くすり (kusuri)
• Nanori: み

Compounds

Compounds

薬罐 (やっかん, yakkan) 薬缶 (やっかん, yakkan) 薬局 (やっきょく, yakkyoku) (“a pharmacy”) 薬学 (やくがく, yakugaku) (“pharmacology, pharmaceuticals”) 薬剤 (やくざい, yakuzai) (“a medicine, a drug”) 薬師 (やくし, yakushi) (“the Yakushi, the Bhaiṣajyaguru”) 薬剤師 (やくざいし, yakuzaishi) (“a pharmacist”) 薬師如来 (やくしにょらい, Yakushi Nyorai): Bhaiṣajyaguru, the medicine Buddha

薬石 (やくせき, yakuseki) 薬膳 (やくぜん, yakuzen) 薬品 (やくひん, yakuhin) 薬用 (やくよう, yakuyō) 薬理 (やくり, yakuri) 薬理学 (やくりがく, yakurigaku) 医薬品 (いやくひん, iyakuhin) 医薬部外品 (いやくぶがいひん, iyakubugaihin)

火薬 (かやく, kayaku) 加薬 (かやく, kayaku) 膏薬 (こうやく, kōyaku) 投薬 (とうやく, tōyaku) 農薬 (のうやく, nōyaku) 釉薬 (うわぐすり, uwagusuri) 媚薬 (びやく, biyaku) (“an aphrodisiac”) 解毒薬 (げどくやく, gedokuyaku) (“an antidote”)

Etymology

Same origin as 奇し (kusushi, “mystical”).

Noun

薬 (hiragana くすり, romaji kusuri)

1. A medicine or drug.
2. (Abbreviation of uwagusuri) A ceramic glaze or enamel.

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Korean

Hanja

薬 (hangeul 약, revised yak, McCune-Reischauer yak, Yale yak)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

薬 (pinyin yào (yao4), Wade-Giles yao⁴)