藥 - Yao4 - Drug, Medicine
Strangely gunpowder is 火藥 - Huo3 Yao4 - Fire Medicine. We saw quite a bit of it used up today.
05.07.03
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Joe
hmm, in japanese the character is slightly different.
薬 - kusuri is the character for medecine. If you can enlarge it, you`ll see that the part in the middle is simplified.
steve
SO CONFUSING! Why can\’t everybody just agree to use the same characters?
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