Pinyin: yào

medicine

Example sentence

请按时吃药。

Qǐng ànshí chī yào.

Please take the medicine on time.

What 药 means

(yào) is a Chinese word meaning “medicine”. It belongs to the Health & Body topic and appears at HSK 2, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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