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薬 = 艹 + 楽

薬 is a Japanese kanji written with 16 strokes, listed here under the keyword “medicine”. It is built from 艹 (mugwort) and 楽 (music). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 1873.

Keyword
medicine
RTK frame
1873
Strokes
16
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
ヤク
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
くすり
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
медицина
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
薬 drugs

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 艹 mugwort
  2. 楽 music

How to find 薬 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “mugwort” + “music”. 薬 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

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