药

Traditional form:

藥

Pinyin (reading):

yào

Definitions:

• medicine
• drug
• substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting)
• CL:種／种 (zhǒng),服 (fù),味 (wèi)
• to poison

Characters:

• 药 - drugs, medicine; the leaf of the Dahurian angelica plant

Traditional characters:

• 藥 - drugs, medicine; the leaf of the Dahurian angelica plant