Medicine

On’yomi: い
Kun’yomi: —
Radical: 匸 Hiding Enclosure (Kangxi 23)

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

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

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 doctorN5

医学いがく medical scienceN4

医療いりょう medical care,medical treatmentN3

医 is rank 363 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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