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Definition
To decoct or boil Chinese herbal medicine.
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How it's used
Refers specifically to the process of decocting raw herbs into a liquid tonic. It is rarely used for modern pills or capsules, which are usually described as 食藥. The term carries a sense of domestic care, as the process is time-consuming and requires careful monitoring of the heat to ensure the medicine is effective.
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Do not use this for taking medicine in general, as it specifically describes the cooking process. Using it to mean simply swallowing a pill will sound very strange to native speakers.
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Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
