丸子 | wán zi | pills / balls / meatballs | |
炼丹 | liàn dān | to concoct pills of immortality | |
粒 | lì | grain / granule / classifier for small round things (peas, bullets, peanuts, pills, grains 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) |