药 (藥) yào

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. yào verb to cure
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (ABC 'yào' v; NCCED '药' 2)
  4. yào verb to poison
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (ABC 'yào' n/v; NCCED '药' 3)
  5. 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')

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  • 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 26 Sarvāstivādavinaya (Shi Song Lu) 十誦律 — count: 76
  • Scroll 10 Dharmaguputakavinaya (Si Fen Lu) 四分律 — count: 76 , has English translation
  • 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
  • 服毒药 (服毒藥) 或服毒藥 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 16 — count: 6
  • 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
  • 药木 (藥木) 藥木皆悉枯槁 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 6
  • 疾药 (疾藥) 衣食疾藥 — Nirvāṇa Sūtra 佛般泥洹經, Scroll 2 — count: 6
  • 三药 (三藥) 此三大患有此三藥 — Ekottarāgama 增壹阿含經, Scroll 12 — count: 4
  • 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
  • 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