醛 (quán): aldehyde
醛 (quán) is a Chinese character meaning “aldehyde.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 酉 (semantic) and 荃 (phonetic). It ranks #3976 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 醛 chemical. Its radical form 酉 (wine) appears in many related characters such as 酗 (xù, drunk), 酝 (yùn, to brew), 配 (pèi, to join).
Definitions
- aldehyde
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 甲醛noun | jiǎ quán | formaldehyde (HCHO) |
| 醛基noun | quán jī | aldehyde group -COH |
| 醛类 | quán lèi | (chemistry) aldehyde |
| 聚甲醛noun | jù jiǎ quán | polyformaldehyde (CH2O)n |
| 甘油醛noun | gān yóu quán | glyceraldehyde (CH2O)3 |
| 醛固酮noun | quán gù tóng | aldosterone |
| 丁醛noun | dīng quán | butyraldehyde |
| 苯甲醛noun | běn jiǎ quán | benzaldehyde C6H5CHO, the simplest aromatic aldehyde |
| 醛糖noun | quán táng | aldose, monosaccharide containing aldehyde group -COH |
| 糠醛 | kāng quán | furfural (chemistry) |
| 脲醛 | niào quán | urea formaldehyde |
| 酚醛胶 | fēn quán jiāo | phenolic resin (used to manufacture bakelite) |
| 乙醛noun | yǐ quán | acetaldehyde H3CCHO |
| 酚醛 | fēn quán | phenolic aldehyde |
| 丙烯醛noun | bǐng xī quán | acrolein CH2CHCHO |
醛 appears in 17 compound words: 24 as the first character, 71 as the last, and 6 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 醛 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
我国食品安全法与农产品质量安全法禁止将甲醛作为食品加工助剂使用。
wǒ guó shí pǐn ān quán fǎ yǔ nóng chǎn pǐn zhì liàng ān quán fǎ jìn zhǐ jiāng jiǎ quán zuò wéi shí pǐn jiā gōng zhù jì shǐ yòng .
China's Food Safety Law and the Law on the Quality and Safety of Agricultural Products prohibit the use of formaldehyde as a food processing aid.
官方表示,相比上一代材料,综合吸附能力提升 40%,醛类物质吸附能力提升 20%。
guān fāng biǎo shì , xiāng bǐ shàng yī dài cái liào , zōng hé xī fù néng lì tí shēng 4 0 , quán lèi wù zhì xī fù néng lì tí shēng 2 0 .
Officials stated that, compared to the previous generation of materials, overall adsorption capacity has increased by 40%, and the adsorption capacity for aldehydes has increased by 20%.
这半年基本每天都开着,对于新家除甲醛和日常空气净化的效果都不错。
zhè bàn nián jī běn měi tiān dōu kāi zhe , duì yú xīn jiā chú jiǎ quán hé rì cháng kōng qì jìng huà de xiào guǒ dōu bù cuò .
I've had it running almost every day for the past six months, and it's worked well for removing formaldehyde from my new home and for everyday air purification.
油烟中的有害物质,如苯并芘、丙烯醛等,存在诱发肺癌的风险。
yóu yān zhōng de yǒu hài wù zhì , rú běn bìng 芘 , bǐng xī quán děng , cún zài yòu fā fèi ái de fēng xiǎn .
Harmful substances in cooking fumes, such as benzo[a]pyrene and acrolein, pose a risk of causing lung cancer.
榴莲果肉中含有大量含硫化合物,这类物质会强力抑制人体内乙醛脱氢酶活性。
榴 lián guǒ ròu zhōng hán yǒu dà liàng hán liú huà hé wù , zhè lèi wù zhì huì qiáng lì yì zhì rén tǐ nèi yǐ quán tuō qīng méi huó xìng .
Durian flesh contains large amounts of sulfur-containing compounds, which strongly inhibit the activity of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase in the human body.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 酉 (chemical) component
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