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药物

yào wù

2-character word Traditional 藥物

What 药物 means

1. medicaments
2. pharmaceuticals
3. medication
4. medicine
5. drug

The characters in 药物

• 药yàoleaf of the iris; variant of 药
• 物wù(bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself…

Example sentences

• 优胜者不使用药物。
  Winners don't use drugs.
• 这种药物只能外用。
  This kind of medicine can only be applied externally.
• 药物的作用还不确定。
  Yàowù de zuòyòng hái bù quèdìng.
  Whether the medicine will work or not is uncertain.
• 你对任何药物过敏吗？
  Nǐ duì rènhé yàowù guòmǐn ma?
  Are you allergic to any medicine?
• 药物缓解了他的痛苦。
  Yàowù huǎnjiě le tā de tòngkǔ.
  The medicine decreased his pain.
• 你经常服用任何药物吗？
  Nǐ jīngcháng fúyòng rènhé yàowù ma?
  Are you taking any medicine regularly?

Words starting with 药物

• 药物学yào wù xuépharmacology
• 药物学家yào wù xué jiāpharmacologist
• 药物代谢动力学yào wù dài xiè dòng lì xuépharmacokinetics

Words containing 药物

• 精神药物jīng shén yào wùpsychotropic drugs

Sounds the same

Read yào wù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 要务key task; important affair