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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
- —原薬等登録原簿drug master file; DMF
- —医薬情報担当者medical representative; pharmaceutical sales representative
- —抗アレルギー薬anti-allergic agent; antihistamine; allergy medicine
- —アステラス製薬Astellas Pharma
- —医薬品情報協会Drug Information Association; DIA
- —米国薬局方協会US Pharmacopeial Convention
- —リバテープ製薬Libatape Pharmaceutical
- —麻薬問題担当長官drug czar; Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy; ONDCP
- —薬害ヤコブ病訴訟Japanese lawsuit involving cases where hospitalized patients contracted Creutzfeld-Jakob disease from infected transplants
- —国際製薬技術協会International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering; ISPE
- —日本循環薬理学会Japanese Association of Cardiovascular Pharmacology; JACP
- —日本製薬工業協会Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
- —日本無機薬品協会Japan Inorganic Chemical Industry Association
- —日本薬物動態学会Japanese Society for the Study of Xenobiotics
- —日本臨床薬理学会Japanese Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
- —米国製薬工業協会Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (pn)
- —東北医科薬科大学Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University
- —大阪医科薬科大学Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University
- —ジェネリック医薬品generic drug
- —炭酸脱水酵素阻害薬carbonate dehydratase inhibitor
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