碱
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(chemistry) base; alkali; soda
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 石 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 碱
- Common rank
- #1,275
- Unicode
- U+78B1
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Words with 碱
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 碱水面包 | bread made with a lye solution; (esp.) pretzel | |
| 生物碱 | alkaloid | |
| 千碱基对 | kilobase pair (molecular biology) | |
| 碱性土 | alkaline soil | |
| 碱性金属 | alkali metal | |
| 碱基对 | base pair (molecular biology) | |
| 碱性电池 | alkaline battery | |
| 碱土金属 | alkaline earth (i.e. beryllium Be 鈹|铍, magnesium Mg 鎂|镁, calcium Ca 鈣|钙, strontium Sr 鍶|锶,… | |
| 乌头碱 | (organic chemistry) aconitine | |
| 碱基配对 | base pairing (e.g. adenine A 腺嘌呤 pairs with thymine T 胸腺嘧啶 in DNA); base pair | |
| 核碱基 | nucleobase | |
| 麻黄碱 | ephedrine | |
| 去氧麻黄碱 | methamphetamine | |
| 碱性蓝 | alkali blue | |
| 脱氧麻黄碱 | methamphetamine | |
| 碱水 | lye water; alkaline water (used in cooking) | |
| 碱性 | (chemistry) alkaline | |
| 碱化 | to make basic or alkaline; alkalization (chemistry) | |
| 烟碱酸 | variant of 菸鹼酸|烟碱酸[yan1 jian3 suan1] | |
| 烟碱酸 | niacin (vitamin B3); nicotinic acid; Pyridine-3-carboxylic acid C6H5NO2 |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 咸 — compare how they read.