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Translingual

Han character

(radical 164 +6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一田心日 (MWPA), four-corner 11681, composition)

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 1283, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39861
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3581, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+916F

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic  (oxygenated functional group) + phonetic  (OC *kjiʔ). Modelled after (zhī, “lipid”) with a radical input from other oxygenated organic compounds such as (chún, “alcohol”) and (suān, “acid”), referring to ester linkages in lipids like glycerides.

Etymology

From (zhī, “lipid”), referring to ester linkages in lipids like glycerides.

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. (organic chemistry) ester

Vietnamese

Han character

(chỉ)

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