医

See also 醫

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

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

医 (radical 23 匸+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸人大 (SOK), composition ⿷匚矢)

1. cure, heal
2. doctor, medical

References

• KangXi: page 155, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2680
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 85, character 3
• Unihan data for U+533B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

医 (traditional 醫, Yale yi1)

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Japanese

Kanji

医 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Noun

医 (hiragana い, romaji i)

1. medicine (vocation), healing, doctor, cure

Readings

• On: い (i)
• Kun: いやす (iyasu), くすし (kusushi)

Compounds

• 医院
• 医学
• 医師
• 医者
• 医術
• 医薬
• 医療

Synonyms

• (medicine): 醫

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Korean

Hanja

医 (hangeul 예, 의, revised ye, ui, McCune-Reischauer ye, ŭi)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

医 (traditional 醫, pinyin yī (yi1), yì (yi4), Wade-Giles i¹, i⁴)

Compounds

• 医道
• 医德
• 医护
• 医科
• 医理
• 医疗
• 医生
• 医师
• 医士
• 医书
• 医术
• 医务
• 医务室
• 医学
• 医药
• 医院
• 医治
• 医嘱