Jisho

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16 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
Variants:
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:
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

15 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
Variants:
shop, store, pave
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1412 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 舗 【ホ】 shop, store, counter for foldable things such as maps, etc.
  • 舗装 【ホソウ】 paving (a road), surfacing (with asphalt, concrete, etc.), pavement
  • 老舗 【シニセ】 long-established shop, shop of long standing, old shop
  • 名舗 【メイホ】 quality shop, famous store

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
pu4, pu1
Korean:
po

Spanish

  • tienda
  • almacén
  • pavimentar

Portuguese

  • Loja

French

  • échoppe
  • magasin
  • étalage
1786 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1305 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
552 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1773 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1690 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1443 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1536 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1830 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
54 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2177 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1142 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1547 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1856 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30323P Morohashi
1735 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
322 New Nelson (John Haig)
1839 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1982 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1750 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2853 2001 Kanji
3b12.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-7 SKIP code
8362.7 Four corner code
1-42-62 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8217 Unicode hex code