医い

noun

medicine; healing art; healing

Refers to medicine as the art or practice of healing. In modern Japanese this standalone use is formal and is often seen in set phrases such as 医は仁術 or in expressions like 医の倫理.

• 医いは仁じん術じゅつという言こと葉ばがある。

  There is a saying that medicine is a benevolent art.

• 医いの倫りん理りについて学まなぶ。

  We study the ethics of medicine.

noun, noun, used as a suffix

doctor; physician

Most common as a suffix or compound element for kinds of doctors, as in 外科医, 専門医, or 産婦人科医. As a standalone noun, 医 is more formal or literary than 医者 or 医師.

• 彼かの女じょは外げ科か医いとして働はたらいている。

  She works as a surgeon.

• 将しょう来らいは医いを志こころざしている。

  I hope to become a doctor in the future.