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English definition drugs, pharmaceuticals, medicine
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system yao4 yue4 shuo4 lüe4
Pronunciation(s) and frequencies according to 現代漢語頻率詞典 <Xiandai Hanyu Pinlu Cidian> (XDHYPLCD) yào(407)
Tang dynasty pronunciation(s), derived from or consistent with T'ang Poetic Vocabulary by Hugh M. Stimson, Far Eastern Publications, Yale Univ. 1976 *iɑk
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Jyutping romanization system joek6
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system yeuk6
Japanese (Kana) ヤク シャク リャク くすり
Japanese (Hepburn) kusuri
Sino-Japanese yaku
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system yak
Hangul 약:0E
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 + 15
Unicode total stroke count 18
Cangjie TVID
Four corner code 4490.4
Expected to be known in Hong Kong school system primary grade 3
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 3320, character 11
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 1065, position 47
Grammata Serica Recensa, Bernhard Karlgren, 1957 1125p
Analytic Dictionary of Chinese and Sino-Japanese, Bernhard Karlgren, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1974 568
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 1175, row 5, position 1
宋本廣韻 <Song Ben Guang Yun> Song Dynasty edition of the Guang Yun Rhyming Dictionary page 501, character 1
This represents the position(s) of the ideograph in the Soengmou San Zidin (商務新字典, New Commercial Press Character Dictionary) page 604, character 6
The Five Thousand Dictionary (Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary) by Courtenay H. Fenn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979 490A
page 619, position 3
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 972
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 5183
Student's Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe (3rd edition, 1947) 3875
常用字字形表 (二零零零年修訂本),香港: 香港教育學院, 2000, ISBN 962-949-040-4 3561
The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Andrew Nathaniel Nelson, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974 4085
Taiwan telegraph code 5673
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 34277 / 85E5