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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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On readings
ヤク
Kun readings
くすり
Variant forms
藥Words with 薬
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —新潟薬科大学Niigata University of Pharmacy and Medical and Life Sciences
- —大阪薬科大学Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences (1950-2021)
- —第一薬科大学Daiichi University of Pharmacy
- —中国薬科大学China Pharmaceutical University
- —東京薬科大学Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences
- —東北薬科大学Tohoku Pharmaceutical University
- —日本農薬学会Pesticide Science Society of Japan; PSSJ
- —日本薬剤学会Academy of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Japan
- —武田薬品工業Takeda Pharmaceutical
- —明治薬科大学Meiji Pharmaceutical University
- —薬価専門部会Special Committee on Drug Prices
- —臨床薬理学会Association of Clinical Pharmacology
- —和漢医薬学会Medical and Pharmaceutical Society for Wakan-Yaku
- —和漢薬研究所Institute of Natural Medicine
- —日本薬科大学Nihon Pharmaceutical University
- —横浜薬科大学Yokohama University of Pharmacy
- —自家薬籠中の物complete mastery of or over; at one's beck and call
- —抗ヒスタミン薬antihistamine
- —三環系抗うつ薬tricyclic antidepressant
- —良薬は口に苦しthe most helpful advice may be difficult to listen to; good medicine tastes bitter
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