唑 (zuò): azole (a class of nitrogen-cont…

Meanings

这种抗真菌药属于唑类化合物。

Zhè zhǒng kàng zhēnjūn yào shǔyú zuò lèi huàhéwù.

This antifungal drug belongs to the azole class.

三唑类化合物广泛用于农药。

Sān zuò lèi huàhéwù guǎngfàn yòngyú nóngyào.

Triazole compounds are widely used in agricultural pesticides.

usage

A modern chemistry coinage for the 'azole' ring. You meet it as a suffix in compound names like 噻唑 ('thiazole') and 咪唑 ('imidazole'), not on its own.

radical

口 kǒu

mouth

Mouth, the radical. In modern transliterated chemical names the mouth radical commonly flags a borrowed-sound word, the same trick as in 吡 and 啶.

phonetic

坐 zuò

to sit; phonetic

To sit, supplying the sound zuò with an exact match. It is purely phonetic here, picked to spell the 'zole' syllable of azole.

唑 zuò