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English definition orris root; leaf of the iris; medicine
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system yao4 yue4
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Jyutping romanization system joek6
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system yeuk6
Japanese (Kana) ヤク アク テキ チャク
Japanese (Hepburn) yoroigusa matou tsutsumu
Sino-Japanese yaku aku teki
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system yak ak
Hangul 약:0N
Vietnamese pronunciation(s) in Quốc ngữ dược
Simplified variants
Semantic variants (x- or y-variants with similar or identical meaning)
Unicode radical / stroke count 艸艹 + 9
Unicode total stroke count 12
Cangjie TVFI
Four corner code 4492.7
漢語大字典 <Hanyu Da Zidian> 'Great Chinese Character Dictionary' (in 8 Volumes). Hubei and Sichuan Dictionary Publishing Collectives, 1986-1990. ISBN: 7-5403-0030 2/H.16 volume 5, page 3259, character 9
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 1046, position 12
Dae Jaweon (Korean) dictionary, first edition, published in Seoul by Samseong Publishing Co., Ltd., 1988 page 1507, position 13
Grammata Serica Recensa, Bernhard Karlgren, 1957 1120n
Analytic Dictionary of Chinese and Sino-Japanese, Bernhard Karlgren, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1974 1349
Cihai (辭海) dictionary, single volume edition, published in Hong Kong by the Zhonghua Bookstore, 1983 (reprint of the 1947 edition), ISBN 962-231-005-2 page 1155, row 3, position 1
宋本廣韻 <Song Ben Guang Yun> Song Dynasty edition of the Guang Yun Rhyming Dictionary page 467, character 2 page 502, character 30
The Five Thousand Dictionary (Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary) by Courtenay H. Fenn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979 page 619, position 3
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 972 1523
Chinese-English Dictionary by Robert H. Mathews, Cambrige: Harvard University Press, 1975 7501
A Practical Cantonese-English Dictionary by Sidney Lau, Hong Kong: The Government Printer, 1977 3388
Roy T. Cowles, A Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese, Hong Kong: University Press, 1999 5180
Student's Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe (3rd edition, 1947) 3875
Taiwan telegraph code 5522
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 33903 / 846F