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)
Contained in
- 开药(開藥) to prescribe medicine
- 退烧药(退燒藥) antipyretic (drug to reduce fever, such as sulfanilamide)
- 灭鼠药(滅鼠藥) rat poison
- 安眠药(安眠藥) sleeping pill
- 祛痰药(祛痰藥) medicine to dispel phlegm (TCM)
- 是药三分毒(是藥三分毒) every medicine has its side effect
- 酒药(酒藥) brewer's yeast; yeast for fermenting rice wine
- 眼药水(眼藥水) eye drops; eye lotion
- 药膏(藥膏) ointment
- 熟药(熟藥) refined medicine
- 药物学(藥物學) pharmacology
- 末药(末藥) myrrh
- 吃后悔药(吃後悔藥) (fig.) to regret (doing sth)
- 抗酸药(抗酸藥) antacid
- 草药(草藥) herbal medicine
- 药动学(藥動學) pharmacokinetics
- 止血药(止血藥) hemostatic drug
- 解酸药(解酸藥) antacid
- 药渣(藥渣) dregs of a decoction
- 药补(藥補) medicinal dietary supplement
- 药石(藥石) medicine and stone needle
- 药用价值(藥用價值) medicinal value
- 狗皮膏药(狗皮膏藥) dogskin plaster, used in TCM for treating contusions, rheumatism etc; quack medicine; sham goods
- 药理学(藥理學) pharmacology
- 药食同源(藥食同源) food and medicine come from the same source
- 专利药品(專利藥品) patent drugs
- 杀蠹药(殺蠹藥) mothicide
- 配药(配藥) to dispense (drugs); to prescribe
- 搽药(搽藥) apply plaster
- 圣药(聖藥) panacea
- 感冒药(感冒藥) medicine for colds
- 生技医药(生技醫藥) biopharmaceutical; drug produced by biotechnology
- 制没药(製沒藥) Myrrh
- 制药(制藥) to manufacture medicine
- 坐药(坐藥) suppository
- 消炎药(消炎藥) anti-inflammatory medicine
- 试药族(試藥族) people who participate in clinical trials
- 药剂(藥劑) medicine; medicament; drug; chemical compound
- 中药(中藥) traditional Chinese medicine
- 传统中国医药(傳統中國醫藥) Chinese traditional medicine
- 灵药(靈藥) legendary magic potion of immortals; panacea; wonder solution to a problem
- 禁药(禁藥) drugs ban
- 医药商店(醫藥商店) chemist; druggist; pharmacy
- 药剂士(藥劑士) druggist; pharmacist
- 眼药(眼藥) eye drops; eye ointment
- 化学弹药(化學彈藥) chemical ammunition
Also contained in
食物及药品管理局 、 食品药品监督局 、 药监局 、 药师寺 、 美国食品药品管理局
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 药可 (藥可) 蓬萊藥可得 — 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