Translingual

Han character

酯 (radical 164 酉+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一田心日 (MWPA), four-corner 1168₁, composition ⿰酉旨)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1283, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39861
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3581, character 10
• Unihan data for U+916F

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 酉 ‎(“oxygenated functional group”) + phonetic 旨 ‎(OC *kjiʔ). Modelled after 脂 (zhī, “lipid”) with a radical input from other oxygenated organic compounds such as 醇 (chún, “alcohol”) and 酸 (suān, “acid”), referring to ester linkages in lipids like glycerides.

Etymology

From 脂 (zhī, “lipid”), referring to ester linkages in lipids like glycerides.

Pronunciation

Noun

酯

1. (organic chemistry) ester

Vietnamese

Han character

酯 (chỉ)

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