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酸

suān

HSK 4 Character

What 酸 means

1. sour
2. tart
3. sick at heart
4. grieved
5. sore
6. aching
7. pedantic
8. impractical
9. to make sarcastic remarks about sb
10. an acid

Example sentences

• 柚子很酸。
  Yòuzi hěn suān.
  The grapefruit tastes very sour.
• 柠檬很酸。
  Lemon is sour.
• 牛奶酸了。
  The milk is sour.
• 我全身酸痛。
  Wǒ quánshēn suāntòng.
  My whole body hurts.
• 她浑身酸痛。
  Tā húnshēn suāntòng.
  She was aching from head to foot.
• 柠檬是酸的。
  Lemons are sour.

Words starting with 酸

• 酸奶suān nǎiyogurt
• 酸菜suān càipickled vegetables, especially Chinese cabbage
• 酸痛suān tòngto ache
• 酸甜苦辣suān tián kǔ là(lit.) sour, sweet, bitter and spicy (idiom); (fig.) all kinds of flavors…
• 酸楚suān chǔdisconsolate; forlorn; grievance
• 酸甜suān tiánsour and sweet
• 酸溜溜suān liū liūsour; acid
• 酸性suān xìngacidity
• 酸涩suān sèsour; acrid; (fig.) bitter
• 酸疼suān téng(of muscles) to ache; sore
• 酸枣suān zǎosour date (Ziziphus jujuba var. spinosa)
• 酸败suān bài(milk) to turn sour; (meat, fish) to go off
• 酸曲suān qǔlove song
• 酸根suān gēnnegative ion; acid radical
• 酸梅suān méipreserved plum; (esp.) smoked plum; dark plum
• 酸模suān mósorrel (Rumex acetosa)
• 酸民suān mín(Taiwan) (Internet) troll
• 酸种suān zhǒngsourdough starter
• 酸软suān ruǎnaching and weary
• 酸雨suān yǔacid rain
• 酸乳suān rǔyogurt
• 酸奶油suān nǎi yóusour cream
• 酸葡萄suān pú tao(fig.) sour grapes
• 酸黄瓜suān huáng guāpickle; pickled cucumber

Words containing 酸

• 辛酸xīn suānpungent (taste); bitter; fig. sad
• 心酸xīn suānto feel sad
• 寒酸hán suānwretched; poverty-stricken; unpresentable (for clothing, gifts etc)
• 硫酸liú suānsulfuric acid
• 氨基酸ān jī suānamino acid
• 碳酸tàn suāncarbonic acid
• 脂肪酸zhī fáng suānfatty acid
• 乳酸rǔ suānlactic acid
• 胃酸wèi suāngastric acid
• 尖酸刻薄jiān suān kè bósharp and unkind (words)
• 反酸fǎn suānacid reflux; regurgitation
• 弱酸ruò suānweak acid
• 强酸qiáng suānstrong acid
• 核酸hé suānnucleic acid; (colloquial) nucleic acid test (abbr. for 核酸检测
• 油酸yóu suānoleic acid
• 泛酸fàn suānpantothenic acid; vitamin B5; to surge up (of acid in the stomach)
• 烟酸yān suānniacin (vitamin B3); 3-Pyridinecarboxylic acid C6H5NO2; nicotinic acid
• 甲酸jiǎ suānformylic acid (HCOOH); formic acid; methanoic acid
• 穷酸qióng suān(of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic; impoverished pedant
• 耐酸nài suānacid-resistant
• 草酸cǎo suānoxalic acid C2H2O4
• 亚麻酸yà má suānlinolenic acid
• 制酸剂zhì suān jìantacid (medicine)
• 单宁酸dān níng suāntannic acid (loanword)

Characters built on 夋

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

• 悛quānto reform
• 狻suānused in 狻猊

Characters that look like 酸

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

• 酿niàngto ferment; to brew; to make honey (of bees)
• 醋cùvinegar; jealousy (in love rivalry)
• 睫jiéeyelashes
• 跺duòto stamp one's feet
• 赭zhěocher
• 羰tāngcarbonyl (radical)

Sounds the same

Read suān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 狻used in 狻猊
• 痠variant of 酸; to ache; to be sore