Medicine in Chinese (Mandarin): 药 (yào)
药
yào
medicine
- Simplified
- 药
- Traditional
- 藥
- Pinyin
- yào
- Typed as
- yao
Use it in a sentence
生病了要吃药。
生病了要吃藥。
When you are sick, you take medicine.
The characters in 药
药 / 藥
Medicine. 艹 (grass) is on top, because early medicines were herbs.
9 strokes
Fourth tone. Taking medicine is 吃药 (chī yào), "eat medicine", even for syrup. A pharmacy is 药店 (yàodiàn).
More examples with 药
这个药很苦。
這個藥很苦。
Zhège yào hěn kǔ.
This medicine is bitter.
吃了药就好了。
吃了藥就好了。
Chī le yào jiù hǎo le.
You'll feel better after the medicine.
How to write 药 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
药 9 strokes
In Traditional characters:
藥 19 strokes
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