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醫

yī

medicine

Phonosemantic compound. 酉 represents the meaning and 殹 represents the sound. The 酉 component is a pictograph of a container for wine, which is sometimes used for medicinal purposes.

Components
殹 sound component

殹  Sound component

yì

  

an echo

酉 meaning component

酉  Meaning component

yǒu

  

wine

Evolution

醫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
醫 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
醫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

医 (醫) 

yī

cure, heal; doctor, medical; medical; medicine; doctor; to cure; to treat

Most common words with 醫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

医生

doctor

医院

hospital

医疗

medical treatment

医学

medicine

医

medical

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 66.4905% of movies

290th most common character in movies

482nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

医

Unicode

U+91AB

Shuowen

“醫，治病工也。殹，惡姿也，醫之性然。得酒而使。从酉。王育說。一曰殹，病聲。酒，所以治病也。《周禮》有醫酒。古者巫彭初作醫。”


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