yào in a sentence

Medicine (drug - cure - prescription)

Full dictionary entry HSK 2 8 sentences

药 (yào) means Medicine (drug - cure - prescription). Below are 8 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

生病了要吃

Shēngbìng le yào chī yào.

You have to take medicine when you're ill.

Dictionary example · HSK 2 ·

这个 一天吃三次。

Zhège yào yì tiān chī sān cì.

Take this medicine three times a day.

Dictionary example · HSK 2 ·

From the graded readers

他给我开了一些

tā gěi wǒ kāile yīxiē yào.

He prescribed me some medicine.

Graded reader · HSK 2 · Going to the Doctor

From the travel phrasebook

我在吃

Wǒ zài chī yào.

I'm on medication.

Travel phrasebook · Business dining and toasting

店在哪儿?

Yàodiàn zài nǎr?

Where is a pharmacy?

Travel phrasebook · Pharmacy and emergencies

有感冒 吗?

Yǒu gǎnmào yào ma?

Do you have cold medicine?

Travel phrasebook · Pharmacy and emergencies

有止痛 吗?

Yǒu zhǐtòng yào ma?

Do you have painkillers?

Travel phrasebook · Pharmacy and emergencies

我在吃这个

Wǒ zài chī zhège yào.

I'm taking this medication.

Travel phrasebook · Pharmacy and emergencies

Questions about 药

How is 药 used in a sentence?

This page shows 8 sentences using 药 (yào, "Medicine (drug - cure - prescription)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Why do some sentences show 药 inside a longer word?

Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 药 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.

Is 药 an HSK word?

Yes — 药 is on the official HSK 2 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 2 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 药?

The dictionary page for 药 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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