医

醫
yī
#482 most
frequent character
medical, medicine, doctor, to cure

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

医 began as a drawing of a sheath holding a bow and arrows. In Simplified Chinese it is shorthand for 醫 and means doctor. Its listed senses — doctor, medicine, medical — belong to that shortened form, not to the old sheath picture.

Drawn as: sheath for arrows

医 as a component in other characters

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Homophones

HSK 1
一yī
one, 1, single, a (article)
伊yī
(old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she")
依yī
to depend on, to comply with or listen to sb
衣yī
clothes, Kangxi radical 145

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