药学

藥學

yàoxué

noun #38,946

Meanings

1 pharmacy (science of preparing medicines)
2 pharmaceutical science
3 pharmacology as an academic discipline

Characters

Examples

她在大学读药学专业。

Tā zài dàxué dú yàoxué zhuānyè.

She studies pharmacy at university.

药学研究需要长期的实验积累。

Yàoxué yánjiū xūyào chángqī de shíyàn jīlěi.

Pharmaceutical research requires long-term experimental accumulation.

Tips

usage

药学 is the broad academic field. Narrower siblings: 药剂学 (pharmaceutics — formulation), 药理学 (pharmacology — drug action), 中药学 (Chinese herbal medicine). A pharmacist dispensing in a hospital is 药剂师.

Stroke Order

药 yào

学 xué