药 (藥) yào

1. yào noun a pharmaceutical; medication; medicine; a drug; a remedy
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Used in both literary and modern Chinese (ABC 'yào' n; NCCED '药' 1). For example, in literary Chinese, 種種藥草。合和米麯甘蔗汁中。能變成酒。 'Take many kinds of medicinal herbs and mix them together with rice, yeast, and sugar cane juice and they will turn into wine.' (Collection of Meanings and Terms in Translation, Scroll 3, T 2131 翻譯名義集‧卷第三)
2. yào noun a chemical
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Used in both literary and modern Chinese. For example, 火药 'gunpowder' (ABC 'yào' n; NCCED '药' 4)
3. yào verb to cure
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'yào' v; NCCED '药' 2)
4. yào verb to poison
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'yào' n/v; NCCED '药' 3)
5. yào noun medicine; bhaiṣajya
   Domain: Buddhism 佛教
   Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: bhaiṣajya, or: oṣadhiḥ, Japanese: yaku, Tibetan: sman (BCSD '藥' p. 1030; Mahāvyutpatti 'oṣadhiḥ'; MW 'bhaiṣajya'; Unihan '藥')

Contained in

• 千手千眼观世音菩萨治病合药经(千手千眼觀世音菩薩治病合藥經) Thousand Hand Thousand Eye Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Cures Sickness Sutra (Qian Shou Qian Yan Guanshiyin Pusa Zhi Bing He Yao Jing)
• 药师仪轨一具(藥師儀軌一具) Medicine Buddha Ritual in Full; Yaoshi Yi Gui Yi Ju
• 药师琉璃光佛(藥師琉璃光佛) Medicine Buddha; the Medicine Buddha of Pure Crystal Radiance
• 千手观音治病合药经(千手觀音治病合藥經) Thousand-Hand Avalokiteśvara Cures Illness by Mixing Medicine Sutra
• 药师璢璃光如来(藥師璢璃光如來) Medicine Tathāgata of Lapis Lazuli Radiance
• 药师经(藥師經) Sutra of the Medicine Buddha; Sutra on the Master of Healing
• 华果药草皆得润(華果藥草皆得潤) Which cause the flowers to grow, the fruits, the herbs and trees
• 青色大金刚药叉辟鬼魔法(青色大金剛藥叉辟鬼魔法) Ritual of the Great Blue Vajra Yaksa, who Stops Demons; Qingse Da Jingang Yaocha Pi Gui Mofa
• 药师佛(藥師佛) Medicine Buddha ; Medicine Buddha
• 药师如来本愿功德经(藥師如來本願功德經) Sutra of the Medicine Buddha; Sutra on the Master of Healing; Sutra of the Vows of the Medicine Buddha
• 药师净土(藥師淨土) Pureland of the Medicine Buddha
• 千手合药经(千手合藥經) Thousand-Hand Avalokiteśvara Mixes Medicine Sutra
• 药王(藥王) Bhaisajyaraja; Medicine King
• 药事(藥事) Bhaiṣajyavastu
• 佛说药师如来本愿经(佛說藥師如來本願經) Sutra on the Vows of the Medicine Buddha; Yaoshi Rulai Benyuan Jing
• 药王菩萨(藥王菩薩) Bhaisajyaraja Bodhisattva; Medicine King Bodhisattva

Also contained in

炸药 、 抓药 、 解药 、 药叉女 、 医药 、 迷药 、 𬬰药 、 单味药 、 杀虫药 、 国家食品药品监督管理局 、 良药 、 药苗 、 圣药 、 祛痰药 、 禁药 、 药物代谢动力学 、 对症发药 、 吃错药 、 抗菌药 、 药棉 、 感冒药 、 药片 、 药疗 、 制药业 、 药物学家 、 专利药品 、 药品 、 令药 、 卖膏药的 、 药水 、 拟阿拖品药物 、 药渣 、 高能烈性炸药 、 弹药库 、 抗抑郁药

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Truncated for common words

• Scroll 110 Mahāratnakūṭasūtra (The Great Treasures Collection Sūtra) 大寶積經 — count: 169 , has English translation
• Scroll 3 Si Fen Lu Shan Fan Bu Que Xingshi Chao 四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 — count: 162
• Scroll 28 Mūlasarvāstivādavinayakṣudrakavastu (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye Za Shi) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶雜事 — count: 125
• Scroll 1 Majestic Virtue of the Kumbhira and Child Sutra (Fo Shuo Jinpiluo Tongzi Weide Jing) 佛說金毘羅童子威德經 — count: 125
• Scroll 3 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 115
• Scroll 1 Vinayavastu (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye Yao Shi) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶藥事 — count: 105
• Scroll 7 Amoghapāśakalparājasūtra (Bu Kong Juan Suo Shenbian Zhenyan Jing) 不空羂索神變真言經 — count: 102
• Scroll 26 Sarvāstivādavinaya (Shi Song Lu) 十誦律 — count: 76
• Scroll 10 Dharmaguputakavinaya (Si Fen Lu) 四分律 — count: 76 , has English translation
• Scroll 42 Dharmaguputakavinaya (Si Fen Lu) 四分律 — count: 73 , has English translation

Collocations

• 妙药 (妙藥) 我為汝說如其像妙藥 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 38 — count: 9
• 药树 (藥樹) 釋氏舍夷阿摩勒藥樹園 — Shelifu Mohe Mulian You Si Qu Jing 舍利弗摩訶目連遊四衢經, Scroll 1 — count: 8
• 服毒药 (服毒藥) 或服毒藥 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 16 — count: 6
• 大药 (大藥) 麻油大藥 — Sutra on Seven Places and Three Subjects for Contemplation (Qi Chu San Guan Jing) 七處三觀經, Scroll 1 — count: 6
• 药木 (藥木) 藥木皆悉枯槁 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 6
• 疾药 (疾藥) 衣食疾藥 — Nirvāṇa Sūtra 佛般泥洹經, Scroll 2 — count: 6
• 三药 (三藥) 此三大患有此三藥 — Ekottarāgama 增壹阿含經, Scroll 12 — count: 4
• 百谷药 (百穀藥) 百穀藥木得生長養 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 34 — count: 4
• 三大药 (三大藥) 比丘有三大藥 — Sutra on Seven Places and Three Subjects for Contemplation (Qi Chu San Guan Jing) 七處三觀經, Scroll 1 — count: 3
• 药吐 (藥吐) 不服藥吐下 — Sutra on Seven Places and Three Subjects for Contemplation (Qi Chu San Guan Jing) 七處三觀經, Scroll 1 — count: 3