山药

Traditional form:

山藥

Pinyin (reading):

shānyao

Definitions:

• Dioscorea polystachya
• yam

Characters:

• 山 - mountain, hill, peak
• 药 - drugs, medicine; the leaf of the Dahurian angelica plant

Traditional characters:

• 山 - mountain, hill, peak
• 藥 - drugs, medicine; the leaf of the Dahurian angelica plant