藥
yào HSK2

medicine

药 (藥) yào
medicine noun
medicine, drug, or pharmaceutical cure

我每天要吃三次药。

wǒ měi tiān yào chī sān cì yào.

I have to take medicine three times a day.

chemical substance noun
substance used for a specific purpose, such as explosives, pesticides, or fermenting agents

这些火药必须小心存放。

zhè​xiē huǒ yào bì​xū xiǎo​xīn cún​fàng.

This gunpowder must be stored carefully.

poison verb
to kill or harm with poison

他想药死那些害虫。

tā xiǎng yào sǐ nà​xiē hài​chóng.

He wants to poison those pests.

Cross-References

Classifier

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)