medicinal preparation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
刂 meaning component

  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

is a component form of .

齊 sound component

  Sound component

  

even, uniform

Evolution

劑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
劑 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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medicinal preparation; dose (medicine)

Most common words with 劑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

dose (medicine)

剂量

dosage

镇静剂

tranquilizer

兴奋剂

stimulant

药剂

medicine

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 23.4022% of movies

1274th most common character in movies

1546th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+5291

Shuowen

“劑,齊也。从刀,从齊,齊亦聲。”


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