藥
yào HSK2

medicine

药 藥 yào frequency
variant 葯
medicine noun
medicine; drug; substance used to treat disease or kill pests

我必须吃这个药吗？

wǒ bì​xū chī zhè​ge yào ma?

Do I have to take this medicine?

to poison
to kill with poison; to use toxins to exterminate pests
药 藥 yào
chemical substance
(bound form) chemicals used for a specific purpose, such as explosives or anesthetics
to treat
(literary) to treat an illness; to cure
Yao
a Chinese surname
peony
(abbreviation) the Chinese herbaceous peony 芍药 sháo​yao

Cross-References

Classifier

Abbreviation of

Frequency
Character
Written text
662nd most common 305.4 per million
Movie subtitles
602nd most common 235.6 per million appears in 51% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
142.7 per million appears in 31% of films
Written text
170.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Simplified
药
Strokes
18
Unicode
U+85E5

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)