# 医 — Medicine

Frequency rank 363 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 台 (Machine), less common than 北 (North).

- On’yomi: い
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 匸 Hiding Enclosure (Kangxi 23)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX

A cage (cage) encloses the outside while an arrow (arrow) is trapped inside — an arrow of healing locked inside a cage, the caged remedy that represents medicine and the medical arts.

In words:

- 医者 いしゃ — medical doctor
- 医学 いがく — medical science
- 医療 いりょう — medical care,medical treatment

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