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医 yī — “doctor; medicine”

How to write and say the Chinese character 医 (yī), which means doctor; medicine — with stroke order, audio, its story, and an example sentence. Theme: Out & about.

Stroke order笔顺

医 is written with 7 strokes, in this order (the red stroke is the one being added):

The story behind it字源小故事

An arrow 矢 in an open box 匸 — the doctor's case, ready to pull arrows out and make you better.

A common word常用词

Example sentence例句

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