下药
下药
xià yào
to prescribe medicine; to poison; to slip a drug (into sb's drink etc)
verb
Traditional: 下藥
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- (verb) to prescribe medicine
- to poison
- to slip a drug (into sb's drink etc)
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Related Words
对症(duì zhèng)· correct diagnosis
→对症下药(duì zhèng xià yào)· lit. to prescribe the right medicine for an illness (idiom); fig. to study a problem to find the right way to solve it
→对症发药(duì zhèng fā yào)· lit. to prescribe the right medicine for an illness (idiom); fig. to study a problem to find the right way to solve it
→单味药(dān wèi yào)· medicine made from a single herb
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