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  *火* | 火* | *火
fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86
HSK 3
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  *方* | 方* | *方
square / power or involution (math.) / upright / honest / fair and square / direction / side / party (to a contract, dispute etc) / place / method / prescription (medicine) / just when / only or just / classifier for square things / abbr. for square or cubic meter
HSK 4
medicine / medical science / study of medicine
HSK 4
medicaments / pharmaceuticals / medication / medicine / drug
HSK 4
medicine in liquid form / bottled medicine / lotion
HSK 2
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  *點* | 點* | *點
to touch briefly; to tap / to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list) / to order (food etc); to select / to mention; to bring up (a topic or person) / to hint at; to imply / to administer (eye medicine etc) in drops / to light (a fire, a lamp etc); to ignite / to nod (one's head) in agreement; to beckon by moving (one's hand) up and down / point; dot; spot; speck / dot stroke in Chinese characters / (math.) decimal point / point in time or space / (after a number) o'clock / a small amount; a bit; (after a verb or adjective) a bit more / classifier for small amounts
HSK 1
traditional Chinese medicine / CL: , 種|种
HSK 5
internal medicine; general medicine
HSK 4
surgery (branch of medicine)
HSK 6
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  *尺* | 尺* | *尺
a Chinese foot / one-third of a meter / a ruler / a tape-measure / one of the three acupoints for measuring pulse in Chinese medicine / CL: ,
HSK 4
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  *服* | 服* | *服
clothes / dress / garment / to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc) / to obey / to be convinced (by an argument) / to convince / to admire / to acclimatize / to take (medicine) / mourning clothes / to wear mourning clothes
HSK 6
hard lump in the abdomen (in Chinese medicine) / crux of an issue / main point in an argument / sticking point / deadlock in negotiations
HSK 7-9
medical care and medicines / medicine (drug) / medical / pharmaceutical
HSK 6
to shift; to relocate; to transfer / (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc) / (medicine) to metastasize
HSK 4
a (medicine) pill or tablet / CL:
HSK 2
medicaments / medicine / drug
HSK 6
Western medicine / a doctor trained in Western medicine
HSK 2
to be wrongly positioned; to be dislocated; to be misplaced / (medicine) to be in malposition / (fig.) erroneous; eccentric
HSK 7-9
cardiogram (medicine)
(medicine) (loanword) shock; to go into shock
HSK 7-9
(medicine) allergic; hypersensitive / (fig.) oversensitive; prone to overreact
HSK 5
wind chill / cold weather / common cold (medicine)
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  *藥* | 藥* | *藥
medicine / drug / substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting) / CL: 種|种, , / to poison
HSK 2
to separate oneself from / to break away from / diastasis (medicine) / abscission / abjunction (botany)
HSK 5
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  *散* | 散* | *散
scattered / loose / to come loose / to fall apart / leisurely / powdered medicine
HSK 5
(medicine) focal
(TCM) dried human placenta (used as medicine)
dizziness, nausea etc brought on as a side effect of drug treatment (Chinese medicine)
medicine ball
artificial respiration (medicine)
dosage / prescribed dose of medicine
prepared prescription (Chinese medicine)
positive (in its effect) / leading to good consequences / virtuous / (medicine) benign (tumor etc)
HSK 7-9
anxiety / sore point / secret worry / mental disorder / heart disease (medicine)
HSK 7-9
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  *楚* | 楚* | *楚
distinct / clear / orderly / pain / suffering / deciduous bush used in Chinese medicine (genus Vitex) / punishment cane (old)
to harden / (medicine) sclerosis / (fig.) to become inflexible in one's opinions; to ossify
Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
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  *劑* | 劑* | *劑
(bound form) a compound made by mixing ingredients (esp. a medicinal or chemical product) / (bound form) small piece of dough cut from a rolled log, used for making mantou (steamed buns) or dumplings / classifier for a dose of medicine
HSK 7-9
to droop / to sag / to hang down / sagging / drooping / prolapse (medicine)
to happen simultaneously / (medicine) (of one disease) to be complicated by (another); (of another disease) to erupt simultaneously / (computing) concurrent
erysipelas (medicine)
(of objects) to fall / to drop / to droop / (medicine) to experience tenesmus
HSK 7-9
hypoglycemia (medicine)
to use in medicine
(medicine) ventilator
stupid; dull / (medicine) dementia
HSK 7-9
to eat in (at a restaurant) (Tw) / to take the medicine orally
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  *服* | 服* | *服
classifier for medicine: dose / Taiwan pr. [fu2]
to analyze in depth / dialysis; (chemistry) to dialyze; (medicine) to undergo dialysis treatment
lit. to prescribe the right medicine for an illness (idiom); fig. to study a problem to find the right way to solve it / to take appropriate steps
Chinese and Western medicine / a doctor trained in Chinese and Western medicine
sales counter; front desk; bar / (of financial trading, medicines etc) OTC (over-the-counter)
HSK 7-9
taboo / contraindication (medicine) / to abstain from
HSK 7-9
donor (chemistry, physics, medicine)
antacid (medicine)
organ failure / exhaustion / prostration (medicine)
HSK 7-9
vegetative state (medicine)
specialized subject / branch (of medicine) / specialized training school
good medicine tastes bitter (idiom); fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow
muscle relaxant (medicine)
Chinese herbal medicine
(of clothes) baggy; loose / (of a person) fat; stout / (medicine) hypertrophy
(medicine) keratosis
to take medicine orally (as opposed to applying externally)
unilateral / one-sided / home remedy / folk prescription(same as 丹方) / single-drug prescription (same as 奇方, one of the seven kinds of prescriptions of Chinese medicine 七方) / metaphorically. a good solution
medicine for colds
(medicine) to suffer paralysis / (fig.) to be paralyzed; to break down; to come to a standstill
HSK 7-9
(medicine) ventilator
generic drug; generic medicine
(medicine) sequelae / residual effects / (fig.) repercussions / aftermath
HSK 7-9
condition or type of pulse (in Chinese medicine)
effective medicine for a specific condition / highly effective medicine
good medicine / effective prescription / fig. good plan / effective strategy
(medicine) heart rhythm
to write a word incorrectly / typo / (medicine) to mistakenly transplant (an infected organ etc)
astigmatism (medicine) (Tw)
generic drug; generic medicine
mind / state of mind / attention / (Chinese medicine) psychic constitution
depletion of the spleen (Chinese medicine)
(lit.) to have taken the wrong medicine / (fig.) (of one's behavior etc) different than usual / abnormal
to study medicine
duct; pipe; conduit / (botany) vessel / (medicine) catheter
(medicine) prosthesis; implant
(medicine) (of blood) to flow back into the IV tube / (gaming) to restore health points; (fig.) to recover (to some extent)
drug resistance (medicine)
laboratory medicine
neuralgia (medicine)
varicocele (medicine)
organoid (regenerative medicine)
set prescription (i.e. medicine specifically prescribed for a definite condition)
powder medicine
monk fruit, the sweet fruit of Siraitia grosvenorii, a vine of the Curcubitaceae family native to southern China and northern Thailand, used in Chinese medicine
to swallow / to take (medicine)
color Doppler imaging (CDI) (medicine)
different broth but the same old medicine (idiom); a change in name only / a change in form but not in substance
(medicine) general surgery (abbr. for 普通外科)
appendectomy (medicine)
to take (medicine)
HSK 7-9
(medicine) testicular torsion
traditional Chinese medicine / TCM

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