喹 (kuí) · (in 喹啉) quinoline, an organic chemical compound

Meanings

1 (in 喹啉) quinoline, an organic chemical compound

Characters

喹

kuí

quinoline (chemistry)

Examples

HSK 7-9

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.

HSK 7-9

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.