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U+85E5, 藥
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85E5

[U+85E4]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+85E6]

Translingual

More information Traditional, Shinjitai ...

Han character

(Kangxi radical 140, +15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 廿女戈木 (TVID), four-corner 44904, composition )

Derived characters

  • 𡤤, 𢺇, 𤄶, , 𤓈, 𥍐, 𮁚, 𧆄, 𨰤, 𬌖, 𱿌, 𭻽, 𮮎

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1065, character 47
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32341
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3320, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+85E5
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Chinese

More information trad., simp. ...

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 藥, Western Zhou ...

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *lawɢ): semantic (grass) + phonetic (OC *ŋraːwɢs, *raːwɢ, *ŋraːwɢ).

Etymology 1

According to Schuessler (2007), either:

  • related to Mizo hlo (a weed, drug, medicine), or
  • cognate to (OC *rews, “to treat, to cure”), thus beloning to the same word family as (OC *lowɢ), (OC *qʰljawɢ).

Pronunciation


Note: ngok6 - surname.
Note:
  • ieo7 - vernacular;
  • yorh7/yoeh7 - literary.

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More information Character, Reading # ...
More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Definitions

  1. medicine; drug; pharmaceutical
       chīyào   to take medicine; (slang) to take illicit drugs
    同樣為什麼價格相差 [MSC, trad.]
    同样为什么价格相差 [MSC, simp.]
    Tóngyàng de yào wèishénme jiàgé xiāngchà hěn duō? [Pinyin]
    Why do prices for the same medicine differ so much?
  2. substance used for a particular purpose (e.g. poisoning, fermenting, explosion)
       xiàyào   to poison
  3. short for 芍藥芍药 (sháoyao)
  4. to treat; to cure
  5. to poison
  6. a surname

See also

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (やく) (yaku)
  • Korean: 약(藥) (yak)
  • Vietnamese: dược ()

Others:

  • Kavalan: iyu

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. only used in 灼藥灼药 (zhuóshuò)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. only used in 勺藥勺药 (zhuólüè)

References

  • 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 772.
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Japanese

Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. Kyūjitai form of : a medicine, a drug.

Readings

  • Go-on: やく (yaku)
  • Kan-on: やく (yaku)
  • Kun: くすり (kusuri, )

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (MC yak). Recorded as Middle Korean 약〮 (yák) (Yale: yák) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

(eumhun (yak yak))

  1. hanja form? of (medicine; drug)

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.
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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: dược
: Nôm readings: dược, thuốc

Noun

  1. chữ Hán form of dược ((education, pharmacy) pharmacy)

Derived terms

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