kuí
noun #53,456

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 喹啉) quinoline, an organic chemical compound

Examples

HSK 7-9
Kuílín guǎngfàn yòngyú zhìzào rǎnliào hé yàowù.
Quinoline is widely used in making dyes and medicines.
HSK 7-9
许多抗疟喹啉衍生物
Xǔduō kàngnüè yào shì kuílín yǎnshēngwù.
Many antimalarial drugs are quinoline derivatives.

Tips

usage
A chemistry-only character, used only in 喹啉 (quinoline) and related compound names. The mouth radical is the standard tag for transliterated chemical syllables.

Components

radical
kǒu
mouth; sound
Left-side mouth radical . On chemical names it does not mean 'mouth' literally - it signals that the character is a phonetic loan spelling a foreign syllable.
phonetic
kuí
(here) sound
Right side supplies the sound kuí; it is the phonetic, with the mouth radical tagging the character as a chemical-name spelling.

Stroke Order

kuí