嘧 (mì): (in 嘧啶) pyrimidine

Meanings

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.

胞嘧啶和胸腺嘧啶都含有嘧啶环。

Bāomìdìng hé xiōng xiàn mì dìng dōu hányǒu mì dìng huán.

Cytosine and thymine both contain a pyrimidine ring.

usage

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

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.

嘧 mì