醫 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. 病気やけがをなおす、いやす行為又はそれを行なう人。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「酉」(さけ)+音符「殹」。「あまざけ」を意味する漢語{醫}を表す字。のち仮借して「医者」を意味する漢語{醫}に用いる。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

medicine

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
Kun (native)
  • い(やす)
  • い(する)
  • くすし
Other languages
  • 拼音yi1
  • 한글eui
  • Hán-ViệtY

Basics

Strokes
18 strokes
Radical
酉(ひよみのとり)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+91AB

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱殹酉

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
2-11-7
Four Corner
7760.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
2t5.2
Nelson
4799