药 yào▶ medicina

Stroke order

药 is written in 9 strokes.

• 药

Senses

1. medicine
2. drug
3. substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting)
4. to poison

Example sentences

• 我没有带药。Wǒ méiyǒu dài yào.I did not bring any medicine.
• 他在医院买药。Tā zài yīyuàn mǎi yào.He buys medicine at the hospital.
• 我买了药。Wǒ mǎi le yào.I bought medicine.
• 他有药吗？Tā yǒu yào ma?Does he have medicine?

Related words

• 火药pólvora

药 is pronounced yào and means “medicina”. It belongs to the HSK 2 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 药 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.