嘌

piào
noun #46,874

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 6
Tòngfēng huànzhě yào chī dī piàolìng de shíwù.
People with gout need to eat a low-purine diet.
HSK 7-9
Chī tàiduō nèizàng huì yīnwèi piàolìng gāo ér shēnggāo niàosuān.
Eating too much organ meat raises uric acid because of its high purine content.

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