He takes medicine.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
吃药
to take medicine
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to take medicine
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 吃药 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 吃药 appears in 11 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Don't forget to take your medicine.
I have to take medicine.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 吃药.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 吃药.
Directly before
- 还吃药1
- 从来不吃药1
- 每天吃药1
- 宁愿吃药1
- 必须吃药1
Directly after
- 吃药的话1
- 吃药之前1
- 吃药了1
- 吃药的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 吃药
What does 吃药 mean in Chinese?
吃药 (chīyào) means to take medicine.
How do you pronounce 吃药?
吃药 is pronounced chīyào.
Is 吃药 an HSK word?
吃药 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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