服用 fúyòng to take (medicine)
怎么记住“服用”: 服 clothes + 用 to use (Kangxi radical 101) = to take (medicine).
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用法
- To take (medicine) orally - 服用药物 (fúyòng yàowù) take medication, 按时服用 (ànshí fúyòng) take at the prescribed times.
- A formal medical word for ingesting medicine; appears on prescriptions and instructions.
- Contrast colloquial 吃药 (chī yào, take medicine); 服用 is the clinical register.