医療

いりょう · iryou · JLPT N3 · noun

medical care

🏥💊 医療 = medicine (医) + healing treatment (療)

医 means medicine or doctor, as in 医者 (isha, doctor). 療 means to heal or treat, as in 治療 (chiryou, treatment). Put the two together and you get medicine plus treatment, which is medical care. Say i-ryou out loud as a reminder.

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