Chinese Character Wiki

苷

gān

licorice

A sweet 甘 plant 艹; 甘 also provides the pronunciation

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

甘 sound,meaning component

甘  Sound Meaning component

gān

  

sweetness

Evolution

苷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
苷 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

苷  

gān

licorice; glycoside

Most common words with 苷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

苷

licorice

核苷酸

nucleotide

腺苷

adenosine

核苷

nucleoside

糖苷

glucoside

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4476th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+82F7

Shuowen

“苷，甘艸也。从艸，从甘。”


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