嘧 (mì): (in 嘧啶) pyrimidine

Meanings

1 (in 嘧啶) pyrimidine

Characters

嘧

mì

(in pyrimidine)

Examples

HSK 7-9

嘧啶是核酸的基本单元之一。

Mì dìng shì hésuān de jīběn dānyuán zhīyī.

Pyrimidine is one of the basic units of nucleic acids.

HSK 7-9

胞嘧啶和胸腺嘧啶都含有嘧啶环。

Bāomìdìng hé xiōngxiàn mì dìng dōu hányǒu mì dìng huán.

Cytosine and thymine both contain a pyrimidine ring.

Tips

usage

Purely a chemistry transcription character. It only appears in 嘧啶 (pyrimidine) and related compound names.

Components

radical

口 kǒu

mouth

The mouth radical is the standard marker for sound-transcription characters, the exact job 嘧 does in chemical loanwords.

phonetic

密 mì

dense; secret

Supplies the reading mì and contributes nothing to meaning, serving only as the phonetic alongside the mouth radical.

Stroke Order

嘧 mì

Related Words

胞嘧啶 bāomìdìng

cytosine (one of the four bases in DNA and RNA)

啶 dìng

chemistry-name syllable (in ring-compound names like pyridine, pyrimidine)

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a surface-only performance / lip service; window dressing / empty formality

烘托 hōngtuō HSK 7-9 #49,967

to set off by contrast / to accentuate / to highlight

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blanketed in pure white snow / (of snowy peaks) gleaming white / snow-covered and dazzling

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extravagance and waste / ostentatious spending / wasteful display

填空 tiánkòng HSK 4 #49,856

to fill in the blank / to fill a gap

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hardworking and able to endure hardship / to bear toil and hardship

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to be besieged on all sides; surrounded by enemies with no way out / isolated and without help

将心比心 jiāngxīn-bǐxīn #49,829

to put oneself in someone else's shoes / to judge others by oneself / to be empathetic