medicine

Original meaning: 

quiver

Originally depicted a quiver, a container for arrows. Later repurposed to mean "medicine" as a simplified form of the traditional character .

Components
◎ iconic component

  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts a quiver of arrows.

矢 iconic component

  Iconic component

shǐ

  

arrow

Depicts an arrow.

Evolution

医 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
医 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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cure, heal; doctor, medical; medical; medicine; doctor; to cure; to treat

Most common words with 医
Freq.
Word
Meaning

医生

doctor

医院

hospital

医疗

medical treatment

医学

medicine

medical

Component uses

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 66.4905% of movies

290th most common character in movies

482nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+533B

Shuowen

“医,盛弓弩矢器也。从匸,从矢。”


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