吃藥

吃药
chīyào
to take medicine

CEDICT

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

Wiktionary

  1. 服用藥物。
  2. 特指吃毒品。
  3. 大陸地區喻上當受騙吃苦頭。

重編國語辭典

  1. 服用非法藥物
  2. 服藥

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 藥 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

服藥 fúyào to take medicine
汤姆死于服药过量。

Tom died of a drug overdose.

Source: Tatoeba