약
Meanings
Noun
1. drug; medicine
2. a yak, an ancient notched vertical bamboo flute of Chinese origin with three fingerholes used today only in Confucian ritual music and dance in South Korea
3. Any combination of hwatu cards that scores points; yaku. (hanafuda)
4. A four of a kind of hwatu cards of the same month that scores points. (hanafuda)
Pronunciation
yak
Examples33
약을 복용하다
to take medicine
약의 효과가 점점 없어지기 시작했다.
The effects of the medicine were wearing off.
이 약이 좀 편하게 해줄거에요.
This medicine will give you some relief.
몸에 좋은 약은 쓰다.
Medicine that is good for the body is bitter.
저 산은 높이가 약 3천 미터다.
That mountain is about three thousand meters high.
그 약은 잘 들었다.
That medicine worked.