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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
- —毒薬変じて薬となるwhat is bad for you might end up good; poison changes into medicine
- —国立薬物乱用研究所National Institute on Drug Abuse; NIDA
- —国連薬物犯罪事務所United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; UNODC
- —日本神経精神薬理学会Japanese Society of Neuropsychopharmacology; JSNP
- —米国研究製薬工業協会Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America; PhRMA
- —麻薬及び向精神薬取締法Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act
- —非ステロイド性抗炎症薬nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug; NSAID
- —医薬品医療機器総合機構Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency
- —国立医薬品食品衛生研究所National Institute of Health Sciences; NIHS
- —モノアミン酸化酵素阻害薬monoamine oxidase inhibitor; MAO inhibitor; MAOI
- —理屈と膏薬はどこへでもつくone can give a plausible argument for anything
- —選択的セロトニン再取り込み阻害薬selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor; SSRI
- —擬薬placebo
- —坐薬suppository
- —痲薬narcotic; drug; dope
- —薬效medical efficacy; effect of a medicine
- —薬鋪drugstore; pharmacy; chemist
- —薬中drug addiction; drug addict; junkie
- —薬匙dispensing spoon; laboratory spatula
- —韓方薬Chinese herbal medicine
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