医
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See also 醫
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Translingual[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Ideogrammic compound (會意): 匸 (“bag, container”) + 矢 (“arrow”) – an arrow (矢) in a chest, indicating one of the early practices of doctors which was to pull the arrows out of wounded soldiers’ chests.
Also Simplified from 醫.
Han character[edit]
医 (radical 23 匸+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸人大 (SOK), composition ⿷匚矢)
References[edit]
- KangXi: page 155, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2680
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 85, character 3
- Unihan data for U+533B
Cantonese[edit]
Hanzi[edit]
医 (traditional 醫, Yale yi1)
Japanese[edit]
Kanji[edit]
Noun[edit]
- medicine (vocation), healing, doctor, cure
Readings[edit]
Compounds[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
Korean[edit]
Hanja[edit]
医 (hangeul 예, 의, revised ye, ui, McCune-Reischauer ye, ŭi)
Mandarin[edit]
Hanzi[edit]
医 (traditional 醫, pinyin yī (yi1), yì (yi4), Wade-Giles i1, i4)