服藥

See also: 服药

Chinese

		clothes; dress; garment clothes; dress; garment; submit; take (medicine)	medicine; drug; cure
trad. (服藥)		服	藥
simp. (服药)		服	药

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fúyào

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ ㄧㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fuk⁶ joek⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ho̍k-io̍h

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fúyào
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ ㄧㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fúyào
    • Wade–Giles: fu²-yao⁴
    • Yale: fú-yàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwuyaw
    • Palladius: фуяо (fujao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵ jɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fuk⁶ joek⁶
    • Yale: fuhk yeuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fuk⁹ joek⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fug⁶ yêg⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊk̚² jœːk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ho̍k-io̍h
    • Tâi-lô: ho̍k-io̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hog'ioih
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔk̚⁴⁻³² iɤʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ ioʔ¹²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /hɔk̚⁴⁻³² ioʔ⁴/

Verb

服⫽藥 (verb-object)

1. to take medicine
2. (Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to pay for medical expenses

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 服藥 (“to take medication”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		服藥
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	吃藥
	Singapore	吃藥
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	吃藥
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	吃藥
	Xining	吃藥
Lanyin Mandarin	Lanzhou	吃藥, 喝藥
	Ürümqi	吃藥
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	吃藥
	Guiyang	吃藥
Cantonese	Guangzhou	食藥
	Hong Kong	食藥
	Taishan	吃藥
	Dongguan	食藥
	Singapore (Guangfu)	食藥
Gan	Lichuan	吃藥
	Pingxiang	吃藥
Hakka	Meixian	食藥
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	食藥仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	食藥仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	食藥仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	食藥
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	食藥仔, 食藥
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	食藥
Huizhou	Jixi	吃藥
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	食藥
Southern Min	Xiamen	食藥, 服藥
	Quanzhou	食藥
	Zhangzhou	食藥, 服藥
	Tainan	食藥仔
	Penang (Hokkien)	食藥
	Singapore (Hokkien)	食藥
	Manila (Hokkien)	食藥
	Shantou	食藥
	Shantou (Chenghai)	食藥
	Jieyang	食藥
	Singapore (Teochew)	食藥
	Leizhou	食藥
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	吃藥
Wu	Shanghai	吃藥
Xiang	Changsha	吃藥