药房 (藥房)
yào fáng
Pinyin

Definition

药房 (藥房)
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yào fáng
  1. pharmacy
  2. drugstore

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

房
Fáng
  1. 1 surname Fang
房子
fáng zi
  1. 1 house
  2. 2 building (single- or two-story)
  3. 3 apartment
  4. 4 room
  5. 5 classifier: 栋 dòng
  6. 6 classifier: 幢 zhuàng
  7. 7 classifier: 座 zuò
  8. 8 classifier: 套 tào
  9. 9 classifier: 间 jiān
房间
fáng jiān
  1. 1 room
  2. 2 classifier: 间 jiān
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
乳房
rǔ fáng
  1. 1 breast
  2. 2 udder
二手房
èr shǒu fáng
  1. 1 second-hand house
  2. 2 house acquired indirectly through a middle-man

Idioms (5)

三天不打，上房揭瓦
sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
  1. 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
  2. 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
宠擅专房
chǒng shàn zhuān fáng
  1. 1 an especially favored concubine (idiom)
文房四宝
wén fáng sì bǎo
  1. 1 Four Treasures of the Study, namely 筆|笔[bǐ], 墨[mò], 紙|纸[zhǐ] and 硯|砚[yàn]
  2. 2 the essentials of calligraphy and scholarship (idiom)
洞房花烛
dòng fáng huā zhú
  1. 1 bridal room and ornamented candles
  2. 2 wedding festivities (idiom)
蹿房越脊
cuān fáng yuè jǐ
  1. 1 lit. to leap the house and cross the roofridge (idiom); dashing over rooftops (of robbers and pursuing knight-errant 俠客|侠客 in fiction)

Sample Sentences

对啊，我上次感冒了想去药房买些抗生素，结果都说要处方。最后我跑到医院去，医生也不肯给我开，说不需要。
duìa ，wǒ shàngcì gǎnmào le xiǎng qù yàofáng mǎi xiē kàngshēngsù ，jiéguǒ dōu shuō yào chǔfāng 。zuìhòu wǒ pǎodào yīyuàn qù ，yīshēng yě bù kěn gěi wǒ kāi ，shuō bù xūyào 。
It's true. The last time I had a cold, I went to the pharmacy to buy some antibiotics, but they said I needed a prescription. In the end, I went to the hospital and the doctor refused to give me any, saying I didn't need them.
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据记者暗中调查，目前申城的药房都规定必须持有医生的处方才能购买抗生素。把抗生素的处方权交还给医生，将有效减少因滥用抗生素带来的日益严重的耐药后果。
jù jìzhě ànzhōng diàochá ，mùqián Shēn chéng de yàofáng dōu guīdìng bìxū chíyǒu yīshēng de chǔfāng cáinéng gòumǎi kàngshēngsù 。bǎ kàngshēngsù de chǔfāng quán jiāohuán gěi yīshēng ，jiāng yǒuxiào jiǎnshǎo yīn lànyòng kàngshēngsù dàilái de rìyì yánzhòng de nàiyào hòuguǒ 。
According to a reporter's undercover investigation, pharmacies in Shanghai are legally required to only sell antibiotics with a doctor's prescription. Returning the right to prescribe antibiotics to doctors will work to reduce the increasingly serious drug-resistant effects of antibiotic abuse.
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呵呵，我也是。有的医院中药房和西药房还不在一个地方，很容易拿了西药忘记了中药。
hēhē ，wǒ yě shì 。yǒude yīyuàn zhōngyàofáng hé xīyàofáng hái bù zài yī gè dìfang ，hěn róngyì ná le xīyào wàngjì le zhōngyào 。
Heh-heh, me too. At some hospitals the Chinese medicine and Western medicine rooms aren't in the same place. It's easy to get your Western medicine and forget to pick up your Chinese medicine.
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我一般先去拿西药，因为中药房等的时间比较长。
wǒ yībān xiān qù ná xīyào ，yīnwèi zhōngyàofáng děng de shíjiān bǐjiào cháng 。
I usually pick up my Western medicine first because you have to wait quite long to pick up the Chinese medicine.
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