gān
noun #67,331

Meanings

  1. 1 anhydride (a chemical compound)

Examples

三氧化硫硫酸酸酐
Sānyǎnghuàliú shì liúsuān de suāngān.
Sulfur trioxide is the anhydride of sulfuric acid.
Suān suō shuǐ hòu jiù shēngchéng gān.
An anhydride is formed when an acid loses water.

Tips

usage
is a chemistry term, short for 酸酐 (acid anhydride) — the oxide left when an acid loses water. The wine-jar radical marks it as part of the chemical-substance character family.

Components

radical
yǒu
wine vessel
Left is , a picture of a wine jar. As a radical it groups characters about fermented and chemical substances — (acid), (alcohol) — and so suits this chemistry word.
phonetic
gān
dry (phonetic)
Right is , giving the sound gān and a fitting overtone of 'dry': an anhydride is what remains after an acid is dried of its water.

Stroke Order

gān