| 丸子 | wán zi | pills / balls / meatballs |   |
| 炼丹 | liàn dān | to concoct pills of immortality | |
| 粒 |  lì | grain / granule / pellet / particle / classifier for small round objects (peas, bullets, peanuts, pills, grains etc) / (Tw) classifier for larger round objects (watermelon etc) | |
| 炼丹八卦炉 | liàn dān bā guà lú | eight trigrams furnace to cook pills of immortality / symbol of the alchemist's art / Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble | |
| 炼丹术 | liàn dān shù | maker of immortality pill / concocting magic pills | |
| 速效救心丸 | sù xiào jiù xīn wán | fast-acting heart pills (a medication developed in China in 1982 to treat heart conditions including angina) | |
