Medical care and medicines in Chinese: 医药 (yī yào)

yī yào

medical care and medicines

HSK 3.0 Level 6Traditional: 醫藥1 example sentence

Definitions

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

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Zhuyin

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/ i/ first tone

ㄧㄠˋ

yào

/ i/ aoˋ/ fourth tone

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医药

Simplified

醫藥

Traditional

Example sentences

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  • 这个国家的医药费用很高。

    zhè ge guó jiā de yī yào fèi yòng hěn gāo。

    Medical costs in this country are very high.

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