药 (藥) yào
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yào
noun
a pharmaceutical; medication; medicine; a drug; a remedy
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Used in both literary and modern Chinese (ABC 'yào' n; NCCED '药' 1). For example, in literary Chinese, 種種藥草。合和米麯甘蔗汁中。能變成酒。 'Take many kinds of medicinal herbs and mix them together with rice, yeast, and sugar cane juice and they will turn into wine.' (Collection of Meanings and Terms in Translation, Scroll 3, T 2131 翻譯名義集‧卷第三) -
yào
noun
a chemical
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Used in both literary and modern Chinese. For example, 火药 'gunpowder' (ABC 'yào' n; NCCED '药' 4) -
yào
verb
to cure
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (ABC 'yào' v; NCCED '药' 2) -
yào
verb
to poison
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (ABC 'yào' n/v; NCCED '药' 3) -
yào
noun
medicine; bhaiṣajya
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: bhaiṣajya, or: oṣadhiḥ, Japanese: yaku, Tibetan: sman (BCSD '藥' p. 1030; Mahāvyutpatti 'oṣadhiḥ'; MW 'bhaiṣajya'; Unihan '藥')
Contained in
- 药师璢璃光如来(藥師璢璃光如來) Medicine Tathāgata of Lapis Lazuli Radiance
- 本愿药师经古迹(本願藥師經古迹) Benyuan Yaoshi Jing Guji
- 说药师琉璃光如来本愿功德(說藥師琉璃光如來本願功德) Sutra of the Merit of the Medicine Buddha; Sutra on the Master of Healing; Sutra of the Merit of the Medicine Buddha of Pure Crystal Radiance
- 毒药心(毒藥心) a poisoned mind
- 药上(藥上) Bhaisajya-samudgata Bodhisattva; Supreme Medicine Bodhisattva
- 药师本愿经(藥師本願經) Medicine Buddha Sutra
- 药草喻品(藥草喻品) Chapter on the Simile of Medicinal Herbs
- 修药师仪轨布坛法(修藥師儀軌布壇法) Medicine Buddha Mandala Ritual; Xiu Yaoshi Yi Gui Bu Tan Fa
- 药师琉璃光如来(藥師琉璃光如來) Medicine Buddha; the Medicine Buddha of Pure Crystal Radiance
- 药师琉璃光佛(藥師琉璃光佛) Medicine Buddha; the Medicine Buddha of Pure Crystal Radiance
- 药王寺(藥王寺) Yao Wang Temple
- 千手观音治病合药经(千手觀音治病合藥經) Thousand-Hand Avalokiteśvara Cures Illness by Mixing Medicine Sutra
- 佛说药师如来本愿经(佛說藥師如來本願經) Sutra on the Vows of the Medicine Buddha; Yaoshi Rulai Benyuan Jing
- 药师(藥師) Healing Master ; Medicine Buddha
Also contained in
对症下药 、 灵药 、 药用 、 抗酸药 、 祛痰药 、 麻药 、 红药水 、 制药 、 抗药性 、 药理学 、 药品 、 酒药 、 山药蛋 、 对症发药 、 麻醉药 、 不可救药 、 药量 、 弹药库 、 生技医药 、 是药三分毒 、 农药 、 杀虫药 、 熬药 、 山药 、 八宝眼药 、 药动学 、 仙药 、 镇痛药 、 无可救药 、 抗药能力 、 耐药性 、 解药 、 药检 、 春药 、 灵丹妙药 、 抗菌药 、 煎药
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- Scroll 110 Mahāratnakūṭasūtra (The Great Treasures Collection Sūtra) 大寶積經 — count: 169 , has English translation
- Scroll 3 Si Fen Lu Shan Fan Bu Que Xingshi Chao 四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 — count: 162
- Scroll 28 Mūlasarvāstivādavinayakṣudrakavastu (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye Za Shi) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶雜事 — count: 125
- Scroll 1 Majestic Virtue of the Kumbhira and Child Sutra (Fo Shuo Jinpiluo Tongzi Weide Jing) 佛說金毘羅童子威德經 — count: 125
- Scroll 3 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 115
- Scroll 1 Vinayavastu (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye Yao Shi) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶藥事 — count: 105
- Scroll 7 Amoghapāśakalparājasūtra (Bu Kong Juan Suo Shenbian Zhenyan Jing) 不空羂索神變真言經 — count: 102
- Scroll 10 Dharmaguputakavinaya (Si Fen Lu) 四分律 — count: 76 , has English translation
- Scroll 26 Sarvāstivādavinaya (Shi Song Lu) 十誦律 — count: 76
- Scroll 42 Dharmaguputakavinaya (Si Fen Lu) 四分律 — count: 73 , has English translation
Collocations
- 妙药 (妙藥) 我為汝說如其像妙藥 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 38 — count: 9
- 药树 (藥樹) 釋氏舍夷阿摩勒藥樹園 — Shelifu Mohe Mulian You Si Qu Jing 舍利弗摩訶目連遊四衢經, Scroll 1 — count: 8
- 大药 (大藥) 麻油大藥 — Sutra on Seven Places and Three Subjects for Contemplation (Qi Chu San Guan Jing) 七處三觀經, Scroll 1 — count: 6
- 服毒药 (服毒藥) 或服毒藥 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 16 — count: 6
- 疾药 (疾藥) 衣食疾藥 — Nirvāṇa Sūtra 佛般泥洹經, Scroll 2 — count: 6
- 药木 (藥木) 藥木皆悉枯槁 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 6
- 百谷药 (百穀藥) 百穀藥木得生長養 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 34 — count: 4
- 三药 (三藥) 此三大患有此三藥 — Ekottarāgama 增壹阿含經, Scroll 12 — count: 4
- 药吐 (藥吐) 不服藥吐下 — Sutra on Seven Places and Three Subjects for Contemplation (Qi Chu San Guan Jing) 七處三觀經, Scroll 1 — count: 3
- 三大药 (三大藥) 比丘有三大藥 — Sutra on Seven Places and Three Subjects for Contemplation (Qi Chu San Guan Jing) 七處三觀經, Scroll 1 — count: 3