药 — Chinese character
药
yào
drugs, medicine; the leaf of the Dahurian angelica plant
- Pinyin
- yào
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 艹 约
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 约
- Traditional
- 葯 藥
Common words with 药
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 药物 (藥物) | yào wù | medicaments; pharmaceuticals |
| 药品 (藥品) | yào pǐn | medicaments; medicine |
| 医药 (醫藥) | yī yào | medical care and medicines; medicine (drug) |
| 弹药 (彈藥) | dàn yào | ammunition |
| 农药 (農藥) | nóng yào | agricultural chemical; farm chemical |
| 中药 (中藥) | zhōng yào | traditional Chinese medicine; measure word: 服 (fù) |
| 毒药 (毒藥) | dú yào | poison |
| 炸药 (炸藥) | zhà yào | explosive; blasting agent; dynamite |
| 制药 (製藥) | zhì yào | to manufacture medicine |
| 吃药 (吃藥) | chī yào | to take medicine |
| 药店 (藥店) | yào diàn | pharmacy; drugstore |
| 服药 (服藥) | fú yào | to take medicine |
English words written with 药
- drug
- medicine
- medication
- pill
- explosive
- ammunition
- pharmaceutical
- pharmacy
- dynamite
- pharmaceuticals
- tonic
- pharmacist
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.