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藥房 in words.hk is joek6 fong4. The explanation calls it a licensed shop selling controlled proprietary medicines, with a pharmacist on duty. The same sentence says it usually also sells everyday goods, and it names milk powder, nappies and shampoo. The measure is 間. The near synonym listed is 藥行, which has no page of its own. The variant form is 葯房. The example asks someone to buy a box of 必理痛 from the pharmacy.

成藥 sing4 joek6 is medicine that can be bought without a prescription from a doctor or a Chinese-medicine practitioner. The entry then says that, called plain 成藥, it usually means Western medicine. Medicine based on Chinese drugs is usually called 中成藥 zung1 sing4 joek6.

必理痛 bit1 lei5 tung3 is tagged as a proper name. The explanation calls it a common anti-inflammatory painkiller, generic name 撲熱息痛, English Panadol. 撲熱息痛 has no entry. to-jyutping gives pok3 jit6 sik1 tung3. 止痛藥 has no page either. The converter gives zi2 tung3 joek6.

配藥 pui3 joek6 has two senses. One is to give the corresponding drugs according to the patient’s 藥單. The other is to take that slip to a pharmacy or a clinic and collect the specified medicine. The collocation is 「去藥房配藥」. Neither 藥單 nor 藥方 has an entry. 藥劑師 joek6 zai1 si1 is described as providing knowledge of drugs, checking a doctor’s 藥方, and explaining health information to the patient. The measure is 個. to-jyutping reads 藥單 as joek6 daan1.

藥水 joek6 seoi2 is a liquid that contains medicine, mainly swallowed, sometimes applied externally. The measures are 樽 or 支. The collocation is 咳藥水, marked kat1 joek6 seoi2. One example says the bottle is bitter. Another says this medicine can cause addiction.

藥丸 joek6 jyun2 covers a pill that contains medicine and a capsule that holds it. It can be bitten apart or swallowed with water. The measure is 粒. In the collocation 吞藥丸, 吞 is tan1. The measure-word entry for 粒 gives only nap1, for small round things. to-jyutping also lists lap1. words.hk does not. Later senses on the same page count other things: with 鐘, it counts hours; 「膊頭有三粒花」 counts the pips on a senior police officer’s shoulder; the English for 「半粒嘢」 is five thousand dollars, and 「三粒半水」 is thirty-five thousand. At the counter, 幾多粒 depends on whether what follows is pills, hours or money.

The first sense of 膠布 gaau1 bou3 is a dressing stuck to the skin to cover a small wound, measure 塊. The example lines up three actions: 貼 tip3, 黏 nim4, 黐 ci1. The second sense is cloth made of plastic, measured with 條 or 塊.

口罩 hau2 zaau3 covers the mouth and the nose. The entry says it usually means a surgical mask, measure 個. The example is to wear one if you have 感冒. words.hk keeps 感冒 and 傷風 as two entries. See the clinic.

白花油 baak6 faa1 jau4 is specified as a bottled oil made from eucalyptus, peppermint and lavender. The measures are 滴 or 樽. The English is White Flower Embrocation.

膏 does not give 藥膏 its own headword, but the collocation list includes it, marked joek6 gou1. 搽 caa4 is to spread a liquid or a paste. Its collocations are lipstick and sunscreen, 搽唇膏 and 搽太陽油. 藥膏 is not among them. 屈臣氏, 萬寧, 保濟丸, 眼藥水, 傷風藥, 飯前食 and 飯後食 have no entries. to-jyutping gives wat1 san4 si6, maan6 ning4, bou2 zai3 jyun2, ngaan5 joek6 seoi2, soeng1 fung1 joek6, faan6 cin4 sik6 and faan6 hau6 sik6.

Sources

• LSHK Jyutping scheme
• CanCLID to-jyutping
• words.hk: 藥房, 成藥, 中成藥, 必理痛, 配藥, 藥劑師, 藥水, 藥丸, 粒, 膠布, 口罩, 白花油, 膏, 搽