薬

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 3.2 Noun 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

薬 (radical 140 艸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿戈人木 (TIOD))

1. drugs, pharmaceuticals, medicine

[edit] References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1062, character 44
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32188
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 5, page 3303, character 5
• Unihan data for U+85AC

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

薬 (Yale yeuk3)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

薬 (grade 3 kanji)

• Style: shinjitai
• Kyūjitai equivalent: 藥

[edit] Readings

• On: やく (yaku)
• Kun: くすり (kusuri)

[edit] Compounds

• 薬局 (やっきょく, yakkyoku), “‘pharmacy’”)
• 薬学 (やくがく, yakugaku), “‘pharmacology, pharmaceuticals’”)

[edit] Noun

薬 (hiragana くすり, romaji kusuri)

1. drug, medicine

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

薬 (hangeul 약, revised yak, McCune-Reischauer yak, Yale yak)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

薬 (pinyin yào (yao4), Wade-Giles yao⁴)