Kana: くすり

medicine

Example sentence

食事の後に薬を飲んでください。

しょくじのあとにくすりをのんでください。

Please take the medicine after meals.

What 薬 means

(くすり) is a Japanese word meaning “medicine”. It belongs to the Body & Health topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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