噻 (sāi): used in transliteration (especi…

Meanings

1 used in transliteration (especially chemistry terms for 'thia-')

Characters

噻

sāi

transliteration character (thia-)

Examples

HSK 7-9

噻吩是一种有机化合物。

Sāi fēn shì yī zhǒng yǒujī huàhéwù.

Thiophene is an organic compound.

HSK 7-9

噻唑类药物在医学中很常见。

Sāi zuò lèi yàowù zài yīxué zhōng hěn chángjiàn.

Thiazole-based drugs are common in medicine.

Tips

usage

噻 is almost exclusively a transliteration character used in chemistry to represent 'thia-' (sulfur-containing compounds). It rarely appears alone outside technical contexts.

Components

radical

口 kǒu

mouth

Left mouth radical - the indexing radical. Files 噻 in the family of vocal-sound morphemes: 啊 ah, 哦 oh, 嘛 particle, 喔 oh. Marks 噻 as a vocal morpheme - most often the modern sentence-final particle in colloquial speech (是的噻, dialect) or the chemistry transliteration 'thi-' in 噻吩 thiophene.

phonetic

塞 sāi

stuff; block

Right 塞 supplies the sound - sāi exactly, no shift. Pure phonetic role; the 'block / stuff' meaning of 塞 contributes nothing here. Same phonetic family: 寨 stockade, 赛 to compete, 鳃 gill. 噻 is one of many 口-radical morphemes coined to transliterate foreign chemistry terms - see also 吡 / 吖 / 嘧 for similar IUPAC syllables.