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嘌

piào
noun #46,874

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 嘌呤) purine, a nitrogen compound
  2. 2 (literary) fast; speedy

Examples

吃太多内脏会因为嘌呤高而升高尿酸。
Chī tàiduō nèizàng huì yīnwèi piàolìng gāo ér shēnggāo niàosuān.
Eating too much organ meat raises uric acid because of its high purine content.
痛风患者要吃低嘌呤的食物。
Tòngfēng huànzhě yào chī dī piàolìng de shíwù.
People with gout need to eat a low-purine diet.

Tips

usage
Almost everyone meets 嘌 only in 嘌呤 (purine), the substance gout sufferers track in their diet. The old literary sense 'fast / speedy' is essentially dead in modern Chinese.

Components

radical
口 kǒu
mouth
The mouth radical 口 marks this as a sound or coined-syllable character; in the modern chemistry term it functions purely as a transliteration glyph.
phonetic
票 piào
ticket; slip
票 supplies the sound piào directly; it lends no meaning, working only as the phonetic on the right.

Stroke Order

嘌 piào