醣

See also: 糖

醣 U+91A3, 醣 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-91A3 ← 醢 [U+91A2] CJK Unified Ideographs 醤 → [U+91A4]

Translingual

Han character

醣 (Kangxi radical 164, 酉+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 一田戈中口 (MWILR), four-corner 1066₇, composition ⿰酉唐)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1286, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39987
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3594, character 2
• Unihan data for U+91A3

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 酉 (“oxygenated functional group”) + phonetic 唐. 酉 is a common component in other organic compounds with oxygen, such as 醇 (chún, “alcohol”), 醛 (quán, “aldehyde”) and 酮 (tóng, “ketone”).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 醣 – see 糖 (“saccharide; carbohydrate”). (This character is a variant traditional form of 糖).

Compounds

• 單醣／单糖 (dāntáng)
• 多醣／多糖 (duōtáng)
• 肝醣／肝糖 (gāntáng)
• 醣蛋白／糖蛋白 (tángdànbái)
• 醣醋／糖醋 (tángcù)
• 醛醣／醛糖 (quántáng)
• 醣類／糖类 (tánglèi)
• 雙醣／双糖 (shuāngtáng)