薬
drug; medicine; chemical; enamel; gunpowder; benefit
16 strokes. Taught in grade 3. Newspaper frequency rank 702.
Readings
- ヤク (on reading): 弾薬 (だんやく) ammunition; 薬物 (やくぶつ) drug
- くすり (kun reading): 薬 (くすり) medicine; 目薬 (めぐすり) eye drops
Components
Words using 薬
- 弾薬 (だんやく) ammunition
- 薬物 (やくぶつ) drug
- 麻薬 (まやく) narcotic
- 医薬品 (いやくひん) medical and pharmaceutical products
- 薬局 (やっきょく) pharmacy
- 薬 (くすり) medicine
- 目薬 (めぐすり) eye drops
- 薬屋 (くすりや) pharmacy
- 薬指 (くすりゆび) ring finger
- 胃薬 (いぐすり) stomach medicine
- 薬研 (やげん) druggist's mortar
- 薬師 (くすし) doctor
- 薬煉 (くすね) boiled pine pitch and oil (traditionally used as a glue in archery, etc.)
- 薬子の変 (くすこのへん) Kusuko Incident (810 CE)
540 words in all.