氨 (ān): ammonia
氨 (ān) is a Chinese character meaning “ammonia.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 气 (semantic) and 安 (phonetic). It ranks #3053 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 氨 gas. Its radical form 气 (steam) appears in many related characters such as 气 (qì, gas), 氛 (fēn, miasma), 氧 (yǎng, oxygen (chemistry)).
Definitions
- ammonia
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 氨基noun | ān jī | amino |
| 氨水noun | ān shuǐ | ammonia solution |
| 氨基酸noun | ān jī suān | amino acid |
| 转氨酶noun | zhuǎn ān méi | transferase (enzyme) |
| 聚氨酯noun | jù ān zhǐ | polyurethane |
| 谷氨酸noun | gǔ ān suān | glutamic acid (Glu), an amino acid |
| 氨气noun | ān qì | ammonia (gas) |
| 氨基比林 | ān jī bǐ lín | aminopyrine (loanword) |
| 氨基甲酸酯类化合物 | ān jī jiǎ suān zhǐ lèi huà hé wù | carbamate |
| 神经氨酸酶 | shén jīng ān suān méi | neuraminidase (the N of virus such as bird flu H5N1) |
| 甲氨基 | jiǎ ān jī | methyalamino group |
| 转氨基酶 | zhuǎn ān jī méi | amino transferase (enzyme) |
| 联氨noun | lián ān | hydrazine |
| 异亮氨酸noun | yì liàng ān suān | isoleucine (Ile), an essential amino acid |
| 色氨酸noun | sè ān suān | tryptophan (Trp), an essential amino acid |
氨 appears in 48 compound words: 27 as the first character, 4 as the last, and 69 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
写好氨字需要掌握正确的笔画顺序。
xiě hǎo ān zì xū yāo zhǎng wò zhèng què de bǐ huà shùn xù .
To write the character "氨" correctly, you need to master the correct stroke order.
把肉慢炖几小时甚至十几小时，能炖出更多氨基酸还是嘌呤？
bǎ ròu màn dùn jī xiǎo shí shèn zhì shí jī xiǎo shí , néng dùn chū gēng duō ān jī suān hái shì 嘌 呤 ?
Does slow-cooking meat for several hours or even more than ten hours release more amino acids or purines?
渐冻症的病因是什么引起的呢?谷氨酸堆积导致的神经兴奋毒性
jiān dòng zhèng de bìng yīn shì shén má yǐn qǐ de ne ? gǔ ān suān duī jī dǎo zhì de shén jīng xīng fèn dú xìng
What causes ALS? Neurotoxicity resulting from glutamate accumulation
再遭冲击|澳洲最大氨工厂遭停电重创 被逼停产两个月 冲击全球...
zài zāo chōng jī ào zhōu zuì dà ān gōng hǎn zāo tíng diàn chóng chuàng bèi bī tíng chǎn liǎng gè yuè chōng jī quán qiú . . .
Another Blow | Australia's Largest Ammonia Plant Devastated by Power Outage, Forced to Halt Production for Two Months, Impacting the Global...
...控股(002539.SZ):70万吨合成氨项目建成试生产
. . . kòng gǔ ( 0 0 2 5 3 9 . S Z ) : 7 0 wàn dūn gě chéng ān xiàng mù jiàn chéng shì shēng chǎn
...Holdings (002539.SZ): 700,000-ton synthetic ammonia project completed and entered trial production
Character Family
气 Radical Family — Characters sharing the steam radical
Homophones — Characters pronounced ān
Frequently Asked Questions
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