yào
medicine
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 约 represents the sound. Simplified form of 藥.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 药
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
drug | ||
medicaments | ||
medicaments | ||
medical | ||
(traditional) Chinese medicine |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 51.0812% of movies
602nd most common character in movies
662nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+836F |
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