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肪

fáng

HSK 6 Character

What 肪 means

1. animal fat

Example sentences

• 切除这块肉的脂肪。
  Qiēchú zhè kuài ròu de zhīfáng.
  Trim the fat off the meat.
• 我不喜欢脂肪的饮食。
  Wǒ bù xǐhuan zhīfáng de yǐnshí.
  I don't like a fat diet.

Words containing 肪

• 脂肪zhī fángfat (in the body, in a plant, or in food)
• 脂肪酸zhī fáng suānfatty acid
• 脂肪团zhī fáng tuáncellulite
• 脂肪肝zhī fáng gānfatty liver
• 反式脂肪fǎn shì zhī fángtrans fat; trans-isomer fatty acid
• 植物脂肪zhí wù zhī fángvegetable fat
• 饱和脂肪bǎo hé zhī fángsaturated fat
• 饱和脂肪酸bǎo hé zhī fáng suānsaturated fatty acid (SFA)
• 不饱和脂肪酸bù bǎo hé zhī fáng suānunsaturated fatty acid
• 多元不饱和脂肪酸duō yuán bù bǎo hé zhī fáng suānpolyunsaturated fatty acid
• 反式脂肪酸fǎn shì zhī fáng suānsee 反式脂肪

Characters built on 方

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

• 房fánghouse; room; branch of an extended family
• 放fàngto put; to place; to release
• 防fángto protect; to defend; to guard against
• 访fǎng(bound form) to seek by inquiry; (bound form) to visit; to call on
• 旁pángone side; other; different
• 妨fángto hinder; (in the negative or interrogative) (no) harm; (what) harm
• 仿fǎngto imitate; to copy
• 纺fǎngto spin (cotton or hemp etc); fine woven silk fabric

Characters that look like 肪

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

• 脉màiarteries and veins; vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)
• 纺fǎngto spin (cotton or hemp etc); fine woven silk fabric
• 肽tàipeptide (two or more amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH)
• 彷pángused in 彷徨
• 贻yíto present; to bequeath
• 枋fāngSantalum album; square wooden pillar

Sounds the same

Read fáng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 房house; room; branch of an extended family
• 防to protect; to defend; to guard against
• 妨to hinder; (in the negative or interrogative) (no) harm; (what) harm
• 坊workshop; mill; Taiwan pr. fāng
• 鲂bream; Zeus japanicus