吃药

吃藥
chīyào
to take medicine

CEDICT

  1. (slang) to take illicit drugs
  2. to take illicit drugs
  3. to take medicine

Wiktionary

  1. 服用药物。
  2. 特指吃毒品。
  3. 大陆地区喻上当受骗吃苦头。

重編國語辭典

  1. 服用非法药物
  2. 服药

維基詞典

Examples

汤姆和玛丽要吃药了。

Tom and Mary need to take their medication.

Source: Tatoeba

Entry Composition

=1 吃 chī
  1. to eat; to consume
  2. to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
  3. to eradicate; to destroy
  4. to absorb
  5. to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
=1 吃 chī variant of 吃 chī
=2 药 yào
  1. leaf of the iris
  2. variant of 药 yào
=2 药 yào
  1. medicine
  2. drug
  3. substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting)
  4. to poison

classifiers: 種, 服, 味

Related entries

服药 fúyào to take medicine
汤姆死于服药过量。

Tom died of a drug overdose.

Source: Tatoeba