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薬

16 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
冫 艾 日 木
Variants:
藥
medicine, chemical, enamel, gunpowder, benefit
Kun:
くすり
On:
ヤク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
702 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 薬 【ヤク】 dope, narcotic, drug
  • 薬価 【ヤッカ】 drug price, cost of medicine
  • 製薬 【セイヤク】 medicine manufacture, drug manufacture
  • 医薬 【イヤク】 medicine, Pharmaceutical and Food Safety Bureau

Kun reading compounds

  • 薬 【くすり】 medicine, pharmaceuticals, (legal) drugs, pill, ointment, salve, efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.), (pottery) glaze, (illegal) drug, narcotic, small bribe
  • 薬指 【くすりゆび】 ring finger, third finger, fourth finger (in piano-playing), fourth toe

Readings

Japanese names:
み
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yao4
Korean:
yag

Spanish

  • medicina
  • droga

Portuguese

  • remédio
  • produto químico
  • esmalte
  • pólvora
  • benefício

French

  • médicament
  • produit chimique
  • émail
  • poudre à canon
  • bénéfice
521 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
420 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
398 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
541 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4074 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
323 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
247 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2568 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.6 Japanese for Busy People
359 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
360 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
315 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
672 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3011 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1539 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2100 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1752 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
32188PX Morohashi
2375 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5224 New Nelson (John Haig)
1736 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1873 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
439 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1964 2001 Kanji
3k13.15 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-13 SKIP code
4490.4 Four corner code
1-44-84 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
85ac Unicode hex code

膳

16 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
并 口 月 王 羊
Variants:
饍
small low table, tray
Kun:
かしわ、 すす.める、 そな.える
On:
ゼン、 セン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2120 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 膳 【ゼン】 small dining table (usu. for a single person), serving tray (with legs), meal, food, serving, counter for bowlfuls of rice, counter for pairs of chopsticks
  • 膳越し 【ゼンゴシ】 rudely reaching over one's serving tray to grab food behind it with one's chopsticks
  • 大膳 【ダイゼン】 black-bellied plover, grey plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
  • 陪膳 【バイゼン】 serving food (to a nobleman), nobleman's server

Readings

Japanese names:
ぜ、 よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shan4
Korean:
seon

Spanish

  • mesita baja
  • bandeja (para comida)
  • comida
  • contador de palillos

Portuguese

French

3817 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2463 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1193 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1381 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1000 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
29891 Morohashi
4873 New Nelson (John Haig)
2468 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1113 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4b12.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-12 SKIP code
7826.5 Four corner code
7826.1 Four corner code
1-33-23 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
81b3 Unicode hex code