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医药

yī yào

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 醫藥

医药 (yī yào) means "medical care and medicines; medicine (drug); medical". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 医药 means

1. medical care and medicines
2. medicine (drug)
3. medical
4. pharmaceutical

The characters in 医药

• 医yīmedical; medicine; doctor
• 药yàoleaf of the iris; variant of 药

Example sentences

• 所有的医药费我大概要付多少？
  About how much will I have to pay for all the treatments?
• 仍有在孩子熟睡后仍难以入眠的父母，他们担心如何偿还按揭月供、付医药费或是存够钱让孩子上大学。
  Réng yǒu zài háizi shúshuì hòu réng nányǐ rùmián de fùmǔ, tāmen dānxīn rúhé chánghuán ànjiē yuègōng, fù yīyào fèi huòshì cún gòu qián ràng háizi shàng dàxué.
  There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for their child's college education.

Words starting with 医药

• 医药学yī yào xuémedical science
• 医药分离yī yào fēn líseparating medical consultation from dispensing drugs, proposed policy to counteract…
• 医药商店yī yào shāng diànchemist; druggist; pharmacy

Words containing 医药

• 传统医药chuán tǒng yī yàoChinese traditional medicine
• 生技医药shēng jì yī yàobiopharmaceutical; drug produced by biotechnology
• 广州中医药大学Guǎng zhōu Zhōng yī yào Dà xuéGuangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
• 北京中医药大学Běi jīng Zhōng yī yào Dà xuéBeijing University of Chinese Medicine

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