Chinese symbol for “medication”
药物
yào wù
Traditional: 藥物
medicaments; pharmaceuticals; medication; medicine
The closest CC-CEDICT match for medication is 药物 (yào wù), defined as: medicaments; pharmaceuticals; medication; medicine; drug.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “medication”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 药物.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| 人物 | rén wù | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc) |
| 动物 (動物) | dòng wù | animal |
| 物质 (物質) | wù zhì | matter; substance |
See also: Japanese symbol for “medication”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.