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Kanji Detail for 藥 - "medicine, drug, heal"
藥
- Meaning
藥 means "medicine, drug, heal."
Medicine - A substance for treating illness.
Drug - A pharmaceutical compound.
Heal - To cure; to remedy.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
medicine; chemical; enamel; gunpowder; benefit
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
drugs, pharmaceuticals, medicine
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
medicine; drug; substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting); CL:種|种[zhong3],服[fu4],味[wei4]; to poison
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
drugs, medicine; the leaf of the Dahurian angelica plant
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Medicine plants. Anything that can cure illness is called 藥. Such as anciently grasses, trees, insects, stones, and grains were called the five medicines. This is the meaning. Medicine is also not limited to treating illness. Such as 迷藥 (hypnotic drugs), 毒藥 (poison) and the like. Therefore being poisoned to death is also called 藥死. | Items that are powdered are also called 藥. Such as 炸藥 (explosives), 銲藥 (solder flux). | To cure. Such as saying 不可救藥 (incurable). Based on the Book of Odes. Also referring to honest advice as 藥石 (medicine stone). Meaning correcting faults is like curing illness. | In gardens, land enclosed with railings is called 藥. In poetry, 藥欄 is often used together. Actually 藥 is 欄 (railing). Appears in "Zixia Lu." | 芍藥 (peony). A flower name. See "芍" for details. Also abbreviated as 藥. - Commonly written as 葯.
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