Translingual

Stroke order

Also Simplified from 醫 (elimination of 殳 and 酉). Compare 声 from 聲.

Han character

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

1. cure, heal
2. doctor
3. 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

Chinese

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

医

1. A tool for storing a bow and crossbow.

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 醫)

1. doctor
2. medicine, the healing arts

Readings

• Goon: い (i)
• Kan’on: い (i)
• Kun: いやす (iyasu), くすし (kusushi)

Compounds

• 医院 (いいん) ‎(iin)
• 医学 (いがく) ‎(igaku)
• 医師 (いし) ‎(ishi)
• 医者 (いしゃ) ‎(isha)
• 医術 (いじゅつ) ‎(ijutsu)
• 医薬 (いやく) ‎(iyaku)
• 医療 (いりょう) ‎(iryō)

Etymology

From Sinitic.

Noun

医 ‎(hiragana い, romaji i)

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

Korean

Hanja

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

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