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17 薬 Medicine

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  • Found In Vocabulary

Radical Combination

  • 艹 Flowers
  • 楽 Comfort

Meaning

Primary

Medicine

Alternatives

Drug, Drugs

Mnemonic

Flowers can be used for comfort, but also for medicine. Sure, it’s a comfort to smell flowers because they smell nice, but one can also use them as medicine to heal people.

Hints

Imagine having some medicine that smells and tastes like fresh cut flowers. Smell the smell in your nose and taste the taste on your tongue.

Readings

On’yomi

やく

Kun’yomi

くすり

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

The best way to transport all the medicine on land is with a yak (やく). Yaks are big, strong, and very capable of transporting flower medicine like these.

Hints

Picture a yak in your mind. Pretend you are riding atop the yak as it transports this medicine. Feel the fur of the yak in your hands as you cling on for dear life.

Visually Similar Kanji

  • 楽
    • らく
    • Comfort

Found In Vocabulary

  • 薬用
    • やくよう
    • Medicinal
  • 薬
    • くすり
    • Medicine
  • 薬物
    • やくぶつ
    • Medicines
  • 薬方
    • やくほう
    • Prescription
  • 薬学
    • やくがく
    • Study Of P...
  • 妙薬
    • みょうやく
    • Wonder Drug
  • 眠り薬
    • ねむりぐすり
    • Sleeping P...
  • 睡眠薬
    • すいみんやく
    • Sleeping P...
  • 薬剤
    • やくざい
    • Medicine
  • 薬剤師
    • やくざいし
    • Pharmacist
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