喹 (kuí): (in 喹啉) quinoline, an organic c…

Meanings

1 (in 喹啉) quinoline, an organic chemical compound

Characters

喹

kuí

quinoline (chemistry)

Examples

喹啉广泛用于制造染料和药物。

Kuílín guǎngfàn yòngyú zhìzào rǎnliào hé yàowù.

Quinoline is widely used in making dyes and medicines.

许多抗疟药是喹啉衍生物。

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

口 kǒu

mouth; sound

Left-side mouth radical 口. On chemical names it does not mean 'mouth' literally — it signals that the character is a phonetic loan spelling a foreign syllable.

phonetic

奎 kuí

(here) sound

Right side 奎 supplies the sound kuí; it is the phonetic, with the mouth radical tagging the character as a chemical-name spelling.