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糖

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sugar; sweets; candy; CL:顆|颗[ke1],塊|块[kuai4]

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HSK 3.0
Level 3
Old HSK
Level 4
Strokes
16
Radical
米 +10
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
糖
Common rank
#517
Unicode
U+7CD6

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Formation & memory

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How 糖 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

米 meaning “rice” + 唐 sound ( táng )

Components 米 唐

How to remember it

sugar · Heisig RSH #955

米 rice + 唐 Tang

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 糖

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
血糖生成指数 xuè táng shēng chéng zhǐ shù glycemic index
金平糖 jīn píng táng a type of small, bumpy, colored, hard sugar candy (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 金平…
语法糖 yǔ fǎ táng (computing) syntactic sugar
转化糖 zhuǎn huà táng inverted sugar
高血糖 gāo xuè táng hyperglycemia; abnormally high blood sugar level
阿拉伯糖 ā lā bó táng arabinose (type of sugar)
糖水 táng shuǐ syrup; sweetened water; tong sui (sweet soup)
无糖 wú táng sugar free
白糖 bái táng (refined) white sugar
口香糖 kǒu xiāng táng chewing gum
糖分 táng fèn sugar content
多糖 duō táng polysaccharide
核糖体 hé táng tǐ ribosome
红糖 hóng táng brown sugar
方糖 fāng táng sugar cube
黑糖 hēi táng unrefined sugar; brown sugar
二糖 èr táng disaccharide
木糖 mù táng xylose (type of sugar)
糖蛋白 táng dàn bái glycoprotein
单糖 dān táng monosaccharide

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 唐 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
唐 sound part táng the Tang dynasty; Chinese; empty, exaggerated; surname
塘 táng pond, tank; dike, embankment
搪 táng to parry, to block; to ward off, to evade
醣 táng carbohydrate
溏 táng pool, pond; not hardened, semi-soft
瑭 táng a kind of jade
螗 táng a kind of cicada