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HSK
medicaments / pharmaceuticals / medication / medicine / drug
HSK 4
medicine in liquid form / bottled medicine / lotion
HSK 2
traditional Chinese medicine / CL: , 種|种
HSK 5
pharmacy; drugstore
HSK 2
medical care and medicines / medicine (drug) / medical / pharmaceutical
HSK 6
a (medicine) pill or tablet / CL:
HSK 2
medicaments / medicine / drug
HSK 6
explosive; blasting agent; dynamite
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *藥* | 藥* | *藥
medicine / drug / substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting) / CL: 種|种, , / to poison
HSK 2
pharmaceutical company
US Food and Drug Administration authority (FDA)
gunpowder
HSK 7-9
prepared prescription (Chinese medicine)
ammunition
medicinal ingredient
HSK 7-9
Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
medicinal effect
knockout drops / incapacitating agent / Mickey Finn
to use in medicine
prescription drug
trinitrotoluene (TNT), C6H2(NO2)3CH3
incurable / incorrigible / beyond cure / hopeless
patent drugs
lit. to prescribe the right medicine for an illness (idiom); fig. to study a problem to find the right way to solve it / to take appropriate steps
sleeping pill / CL:
HSK 7-9
prescription
HSK 7-9
to take (illegal) drugs
anesthetic; narcotic
Dioscorea polystachya / yam
good medicine tastes bitter (idiom); fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow
Chinese herbal medicine
medicine for colds
generic drug; generic medicine
ammunition dump
painkiller / analgesic / anodyne
effective medicine for a specific condition / highly effective medicine
agricultural chemical / farm chemical / pesticide
generic drug; generic medicine
antibacterial
(lit.) to have taken the wrong medicine / (fig.) (of one's behavior etc) different than usual / abnormal
medicinal cuisine
Daoist elixir
legendary magic potion of immortals / panacea / fig. wonder solution to a problem
drug resistance (medicine)
drugs test (e.g. on athletes)
separating medical consultation from dispensing drugs, proposed policy to counteract perceived PRC problem of "drugs serving to nourish doctors" 以藥養醫|以药养医
sedative
(slang) Nobel Prize
sedative drug
antivirals
different broth but the same old medicine (idiom); a change in name only / a change in form but not in substance
poison
analgesic
drug resistance / drug tolerance (medicine)
to make up a prescription (of herbal medicine)
elixir of life
cross-tolerance
(slang) to take drugs / recreational drug
medicinal use / pharmaceutical
to take medicine
antidepressant
pill / CL:
medicine bottle
to manufacture medicine
Western medicine
antidepressant
(lit.) to have swallowed gunpowder / (fig.) to be ablaze with anger / ornery / snappy
pharmacy; drugstore / dispensary
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *葯* | 葯* | *葯
leaf of the iris / variant of 藥|药
HSK 2
to apply eye drops / (fig.) to speak ill of sb / to bad-mouth
insecticide
smell of gunpowder / (fig.) combative tone / belligerence
Yaksu in North Korea, near the border with Liaoning and Jiling province
anti-inflammatory medicine
good medicine / panacea / fig. a good solution / a good remedy (e.g. to a social problem)
pharmacology
drug-resistance (of a pathogen)
Chinese traditional medicine
pharmacokinetics
anesthetic; narcotic / knockout drops
traditional Mongolian medicine (or drug)
pharmaceutical company / drugs manufacturing factory
drug-resistance (of a pathogen)
rat poison
laxative
lit. no antidote is possible (idiom); incurable / incorrigible / beyond redemption
pharmacopoeia
to dispense (drugs) / to prescribe
aphrodisiac
medicine / medicament / drug / chemical compound
antidote
medicine made from a single herb / drug made from a single substance
lit. to prescribe the right medicine for an illness (idiom); fig. to study a problem to find the right way to solve it / to take appropriate steps
to decoct medicinal herbs
what has (he) got up (his) sleeve? / what's going on?
pharmacology
eye drops / eye ointment
unprocessed medicinal herb
(pharmacology) prodrug
biological ammunition

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