藥 — Chinese character
藥
yào
drugs, medicine; the leaf of the Dahurian angelica plant
- Pinyin
- yào
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 19
- Components
- 艹 樂
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 樂
- Simplified
- 药
- Japanese
- 藥 as a kanji
藥 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 6
- Analects 10.11
- Hexagram 25
- Mencius 3A.1
- Zhuangzi Transcendental Bliss
- Zhuangzi The Universe
- Zhuangzi Kêng Sang Ch’u
- Zhuangzi Hsü Wu Kuei
- Zhuangzi Lieh Tzŭ
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.