药 On the HSK 2 vocabulary list, at CEFR level A2. yào ㄧㄠˋ 葯 leaf of the iris 藥 medicine 藥 drug 藥 substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting) 藥 to poison Where 药 is used Example sentences and grammar articles using 药 Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT