U+916F, 酯
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-916F

[U+916E]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9170]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 164, +6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一田心日 (MWPA), four-corner 11681, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1283, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39861
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3581, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+916F

Chinese

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Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声) : semantic (oxygenated functional group) + phonetic (OC *kjiʔ). Modelled after (zhī, “lipid”) with a radical input from other oxygenated organic compounds such as (chún, “alcohol”) and (suān, “acid”), referring to ester linkages in lipids like glycerides.

Etymology

From (zhī, “lipid”), referring to ester linkages in lipids like glycerides.

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. (organic chemistry) ester

Synonyms

  • 𨤎 (yán) (obsolete)

Compounds

References

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: chỉ

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