I have to take medicine.
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药
Traditional: 葯 · 藥
yào
HSK 3.0 · 2HSK 2.0 · 2
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yào · joek6 (Jyutping)
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Character breakdown
药
- Meaning
- leaf of Dahurian angelica plant; medicine
- Radical
- 艹
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- ⿱艹约
- Cangjie
- TVMI
- Four-corner
- 4412
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Example sentences
He took poison by mistake.
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