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  *药* | 药* | *药
medicine / drug / substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting) / CL: 種|种, , / to poison
HSK 2
to be poisoned
HSK 5
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  *毒* | 毒* | *毒
poison / to poison / poisonous / malicious / cruel / fierce / narcotics
HSK 5
slow and patient / chronic (disease) / slow to take effect (e.g. a slow poison)
HSK 7-9
to put poison in sth / to poison
poison dart frog
to prescribe medicine / to drug; to poison
to fire / to discharge / to release (fireworks, smokescreen, poison gas, virus etc)
lit. drinking poison in the hope of quenching one's thirst (idiom) / fig. a supposed remedy that only makes matters worse
Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning
to manufacture charcoal / to burn charcoal (often a reference to suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning)
poison pen letter (Tw)
(saying) one man's meat is another man's poison; to each his own
to expel poison (from the system) / to detox
to take poison
to poison (usu. figuratively); to debase; to pervert; to harm
wasp poison
to poison
poison
poison gas / toxic gas / manifestation of passion, anger etc (Buddhism)
Sanlu Group, Chinese state-owned dairy products company involved in the 2008 melamine poisoning scandal
to spread poison / pernicious influence
poisoned person (food poisoning, drug overdose or toxic exposure) / (coll.) addict; junkie; enthusiast (video games, shopping etc)
to harm (sb's health) with narcotics etc; to poison (people's minds); to corrupt / pernicious influence
food poisoning
poison gland
(of a medicine, poison, strategy, action etc) to begin to produce its effect; to start working
person suffering (from a disease or poisoning) / a patient
alcoholism / alcohol poisoning
rat poison
one man's meat is another man's poison (idiom)
no poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.
arsenic poisoning
blood poisoning
poison gas shell / poison gas grenade
poisonous substance; poison
Yusho disease or Yu-cheng disease, mass poisoning caused by rice bran oil in northern Kyushu, Japan (1968), and in Taiwan (1979)
rat poison
to poison / (fig.) to spread vicious rumors
poison / to murder by poison
a poison / a toxic agent / poison gas / a chemical weapon
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  *殙* | 殙* | *殙
to die by taking poison
Minamata disease (neurological disease caused by mercury poisoning due to industrial pollution in Japan, first identified in 1956)
poison pen letter
cumulative poison
rat poison
to cure ills with poison (TCM) / to fight evil with evil / set a thief to catch a thief / to fight fire with fire
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  *蛊* | 蛊* | *蛊
arch. legendary venomous insect / to poison / to bewitch / to drive to insanity / to harm by witchcraft / intestinal parasite
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  *鸩* | 鸩* | *鸩
legendary bird whose feathers can be used as poison / poisonous / to poison sb
snail poison
to kill by poisoning
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  *荝* | 荝* | *荝
plant genus Aconitum, aka monkshood or wolf's bane (used as poison and medicine) / Taiwan pr. [ze2]
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  *酖* | 酖* | *酖
poisonous / to poison


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