薬 — medicine, chemical, enamel

くすり薬 medicine

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 16 strokes health

U+85AC Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #702 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1873 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

medicine
chemical
enamel
gunpowder
benefit

word

くすり kusuri Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

薬(くすり) kusuri medicine

やく yaku On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

農(のう) 薬(やく) nouyaku agricultural chemicals 薬(やく) 物(ぶつ) yakubutsu drug 医(い) 薬(やく) 品(ひん) iyakuhin pharmaceutical 薬(やく) 品(ひん) yakuhin medicine 医(い) 薬(やく) iyaku medicine 新(しん) 薬(やく) shinyaku new medicine 製(せい) 薬(やく) seiyaku pharmaceutical 麻(ま) 薬(やく) mayaku narcotics

やっ ya Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

薬(やっ) 局(きょく) yakkyoku pharmacy

Appears in idioms

良薬は口に苦し諺

good medicine is bitter to the mouth

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

艹 grass

らく楽 comfort

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#140 艸 grass