Illustration: In a Japanese university laboratory, a student in a lab coat uses a pipette beside a transparent apparatus holding several tablets in stirred liquid. A supervisor watches as another student compares intact tablets with samples at different stages of dissolving.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

薬やく学がく

yakugaku

pharmaceutical science

Example sentences

  1. ここでも土木技術どぼくぎじゅつや薬学やくがくをはじめ多分野たぶんやを学まなび、経典等きょうてんとうを収集しゅうしゅうした。

    Here as well, he learnt lots of things in many areas, including civil engineering technology and pharmacology, and collected Buddhist scriptures.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 忠輝ちゅうてるは海外かいがいとの交易こうえきに興味きょうみを示しめし、武術ぶじゅつを好このむと同時どうじに茶道さどう、絵画かいが、薬学やくがくに通つうじた文化人ぶんかじんで、キリスト教きょうの洗礼せんれいを受うけキリスト教きょうを信仰しんこうしていたともされている。

    Tadateru showed an interest in commerce with other countries and was a man of culture who became acquainted with Japanese tea ceremony, paintings and pharmaceutical sciences as well as martial arts, and also he apparently believed in Christianity and was christened.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 姉あねは大学だいがくで薬学やくがくを学まなんでいる。

    My older sister is studying pharmaceutical science at university.

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Kanji in 薬学

  • 薬medicine; chemicalOnヤクKunくすり
  • 学study; learningOnガクKunまなぶ

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