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薬 kanji
medicine, chemical, enamel, gunpowder, benefit
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
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ヤク
Kun readings
くすり
Variant forms
藥Words with 薬
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —筋弛緩薬muscle relaxant
- —減農薬米rice grown with reduced agricultural chemicals
- —薬事承認regulatory approval of a drug or medical device
- —薬剤師法Pharmacists Act
- —農薬散布spraying of agrochemicals; pesticide spraying; crop-dusting
- —下瀬火薬Shimose powder (explosive composed chiefly of picric acid); Shimose
- —抗肥満薬anti-obesity drug
- —指定薬物designated drug (under the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law)
- —抗うつ薬antidepressant
- —薬歴管理medication history management
- —麻薬国家narco-state
- —麻薬テロnarcoterrorism
- —薬物戦争war on drugs
- —麻薬戦争war on drugs
- —薬物密売drug trafficking
- —工業薬品industrial chemicals; heavy chemicals
- —当薬竜胆whitish gentian (Gentiana algida)
- —麻薬取締narcotics control; drug enforcement
- —火薬入れpowder flask (gunpowder); powder horn
- —薬膳料理medicinal cooking (based on traditional Chinese herbal medicine)
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