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中药

zhōng yào

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 中藥 Measure word 服

中药 (zhōng yào) means "traditional Chinese medicine". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 中药 means

1. traditional Chinese medicine

The characters in 中药

• 中zhōngwithin; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during
• 药yàoleaf of the iris; variant of 药

Example sentences

• 她吃了中药，所以症状减轻了。
  Tā chī le Zhōngyào, suǒyǐ zhèngzhuàng jiǎnqīng le.
  She took Chinese medicine, which relieved her symptoms.
• 她吃了中药，减轻了她的症状。
  She took Chinese medicine, which relieved her symptoms.

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