xià​yào

to prescribe medicine

下药 下藥 xià//yào
to prescribe medicine
(of a doctor) to prescribe or administer medicine
to poison
to drug or poison someone or something, such as by putting a substance into food or drink
low-quality medicine
(literary) medicine of inferior quality or efficacy
to apply medication
to apply or release chemicals or medicine, such as pesticides or rodenticides, for a specific purpose

Frequency

Movie subtitles
2.92 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
0.554 per million

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