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氨

ān

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What 氨 means

1. ammonia

Example sentences

• 别把氨水和漂白剂混在一起。
  Bié bǎ ānshuǐ hé piǎobáijì hùn zàiyīqǐ.
  Don't mix ammonia and bleach together.

Words starting with 氨

• 氨基酸ān jī suānamino acid
• 氨基ān jīamino; amino group
• 氨气ān qìammonia (gas)
• 氨水ān shuǐammonia solution
• 氨基比林ān jī bǐ línaminopyrine (loanword)
• 氨基苯酸ān jī běn suānaminobenzoic acid
• 氨基葡糖ān jī pú tángglucosamine (abbr. for 氨基葡萄糖
• 氨基葡萄糖ān jī pú tao tángglucosamine (C6H13NO5)
• 氨哮素ān xiào sùclenbuterol
• 氨纶ān lúnspandex; elastane
• 氨吖啶ān ā dìngaminoacridine or aminacrine (antiseptic and disinfectant)
• 氨苄青霉素ān biàn qīng méi sù(pharmacology) ampicillin
• 氨基甲酸酯类化合物ān jī jiǎ suān zhǐ lèi huà hé wùcarbamate

Words containing 氨

• 液氨yè ānliquid ammonia
• 联氨lián ānhydrazine
• 丙氨酸bǐng ān suānalanine (Ala), an amino acid
• 乙氨基yǐ ān jīethylamino group
• 亮氨酸liàng ān suānleucine (Leu), an essential amino acid
• 甘氨酸gān ān suānglycine (Gly), an amino acid
• 甲氨基jiǎ ān jīmethyalamino group
• 谷氨酸gǔ ān suānglutamic acid (Glu), an amino acid
• 精氨酸jīng ān suānargnine (Arg), an essential amino acid
• 组氨酸zǔ ān suānhistidine (His), an essential amino acid
• 丝氨酸sī ān suānserine (Ser), an amino acid
• 缩氨酸suō ān suānpeptide (two or more amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH)
• 色氨酸sè ān suāntryptophan (Trp), an essential amino acid
• 苏氨酸sū ān suānthreonine (Thr), an essential amino acid
• 蛋氨酸dàn ān suānmethionine (Met), an essential amino acid
• 赖氨酸lài ān suānlysine (Lys), an essential amino acid
• 天冬氨酸tiān dōng ān suānaspartic acid (Asp), an amino acid
• 甲硫氨酸jiǎ liú ān suānmethionine (Met), an essential amino acid
• 异亮氨酸yì liàng ān suānisoleucine (Ile), an essential amino acid
• 苯丙氨酸běn bǐng ān suānphenylalanine (Phe), an essential amino acid
• 酪氨酸lào ān suāntyrosine (Tyr), an amino acid
• 聚氨酯jù ān zhǐpolyurethane
• 酪氨酸代谢病lào ān suān dài xiè bìng(medicine) tyrosinosis
• 柳丁氨醇liǔ dīng ān chúnalbuterol (also known as proventil, salbutamol, ventolin), an asthma drug

Characters built on 安

These share the phonetic component 安 (ān), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 案àn(legal) case; incident; record
• 按ànto press; to push; to leave aside or shelve
• 胺àn(chemistry) amine; colloquial pr. ān; Taiwan pr. ān
• 鞍ān(bound form) saddle
• 晏yànlate; quiet
• 铵ǎnammonium
• 桉ānEucalyptus globulus; Taiwan pr. àn

Characters that look like 氨

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 氧yǎngoxygen (chemistry)
• 氟fúfluorine (chemistry)
• 氦hàihelium (chemistry)
• 氩yàargon (chemistry)
• 氡dōngradon (chemistry)
• 氪kèkrypton (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read ān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 安(bound form) calm; peaceful; to calm; to set at ease; safe; secure; in good health
• 庵hut; small temple; nunnery
• 鞍(bound form) saddle
• 谙to be versed in; to know well
• 桉Eucalyptus globulus; Taiwan pr. àn
• 鹌used in 鹌鹑
• 媕used in 媕婀
• 盦container
• 鞌An, a place in the area of present-day Jinan, Shandong where in 589 BC there was a battle…
• 𩽾used in 鮟鱇; Taiwan pr. àn
• 萻small Buddhist temple
• 鶕old variant of 鹌