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藥

藥

See also: 薬 and 药

Translingual

Traditional 藥
Shinjitai 薬
Simplified 药

Han character

藥 (radical 140 艸+15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 廿女戈木 (TVID), four-corner 44904, composition ⿱艹樂)

References

Chinese

trad. 藥
simp. 药
alt. forms 葯
薬
𤂼
𣛙

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (樂) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
樂 *ŋraːwɢs, *raːwɢ, *ŋraːwɢ
轢 *raːd, *raːwɢ, *reːwɢ
濼 *pqʰlaːwɢ, *raːwɢ, *reːwɢ, *pqʰloːwɢ, *roːwɢ, *roːwɢ
躒 *raːwɢ, *reːwɢ
擽 *rawɢ, *reːwɢ
爍 *qʰljawɢ
鑠 *qʰljawɢ
藥 *lawɢ
櫟 *lawɢ, *reːwɢ
纅 *lawɢ
礫 *reːwɢ
瓅 *reːwɢ
皪 *reːwɢ
觻 *reːwɢ, *roːwɢ
嚛 *qʰloːwɢ, *qʰloːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *lawɢ) : semantic 艹 ‎(“grass”) + phonetic 樂 ‎(OC *ŋraːwɢs, *raːwɢ, *ŋraːwɢ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 藥
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 藥 (107)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 以灼切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨɐk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jiɐk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /iɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jɨak̚/
Li
Rong		 /iak̚/
Wang
Li		 /jĭak̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯ak̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yuè
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 藥
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yào
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yak ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m-r[e]wk/
English medicinal plant

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 藥
Reading # 1/1
No. 7680
Phonetic
component		 樂
Rime
group		 藥
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 藥
Old
Chinese		 /*lawɢ/

Definitions

藥

  1. medicine; drug; pharmaceutical
    吃藥 / 吃药  ―  chīyào  ―  to take the medicine; [slang] to take illicit drugs
  2. substance used for a particular purpose (e.g. poisoning, fermenting, explosion)
    下藥 / 下药  ―  xiàyào  ―  to poison
  3. Short for 芍藥／芍药 (sháoyào).
  4. to treat; to cure
  5. to poison
  6. A surname​.

See also

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

藥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 薬)

  1. A medicine, a drug.

Readings

Korean

Hanja

藥 • ‎(yak) (hangeul 약, revised yak, McCune-Reischauer yak, Yale yak)

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

藥 (dược, ước)

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