yào

Iris leaves

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

約 sound component

  Sound component

yuēyāo

  

agreement

Definitions

 

yào

orris root; leaf of the iris; medicine

() 

yào

variant of |[yào]

Most common words with 葯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

drug

药物

medicaments

药品

medicaments

医药

medical

中药

(traditional) Chinese medicine

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[q]ˤrewk

'aewk

yào

Iris leaves

*[q]ˤrewk

'jak

yuē

Iris leaves


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 51.0812% of movies

602nd most common character in movies

662nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+846F


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