药材 yàocái medicinal ingredient
How to remember 药材: 药 medicine + 材 timber = medicinal ingredient.
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How it is used
- Medicinal ingredients / crude drugs - 名贵药材 (míngguì yàocái) precious medicinal materials.
- The raw ingredients (herbs, roots, minerals) used to make medicine, especially in TCM.
- Register: pharmacy, TCM, trade.