jiǎn

alkaline

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
石 meaning component

  Meaning component

shídàn

  

stone

咸 sound component

  Sound component

xián

  

all

Definitions

 

jiǎn

alkaline, alkali, lye, salt

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jiǎn

variant of |[jiǎn]

() 

jiǎn

base; alkali; soda (chemistry)

Most common words with 碱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

base

胆碱

choline (amine related to vitamin B complex)

碱性

alkaline

麻黄碱

ephedrine

生物碱

alkaloid

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.5377% of movies

2972nd most common character in movies

2872nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+78B1


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