Chinese Character 藥 Meanings and components.

Form

藥

Meaning

藥 meaning[3] in English

Medicine.

Drug.

Substance Used For A Specific Purpose (E.G. Poisoning, Explosion, Fermenting).

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 藥 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 … (艹) , and surname Le (樂)

Its radical[1] is: 艸 (cao3) which means: Variant Of 草[Cao3], .艸cao3variant of …

In cangjie it is written with TVID

How to write 藥

To write藥yao4medicine you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 樂le4surname Le arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 樂 = 藥

藥 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 藥 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 藥, looks as follow:

藥
Pinyin:yao4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Medicine . Drug . Substance Used For A Specific Purpose (E.G. Poisoning, Explosion, Fermenting) . Cl:種|种[Zhong3],服[Fu4],味[Wei4] . To Poison
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
樂
Pinyin:le4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Le
幺
Pinyin:yao1
Meaning[3]: Surname Yao
白
Pinyin:bai2
Meaning[3]: Surname Bai
日
Pinyin:ri4
Meaning[3]: Abbr. For 日本[Ri4 Ben3], Japan
丶
Pinyin:zhu3
Meaning[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]
木
Pinyin:mu4
Meaning[3]: Surname Mu

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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