肽
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peptide (two or more amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH)
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 肉 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 肽
- Common rank
- #3,142
- Unicode
- U+80BD
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
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How 肽 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺼ meaning “organic compound” + 太 sound ()
Words with 肽
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 司美格鲁肽 | (loanword) semaglutide – drug used to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity, marketed under th… | |
| 肽单位 | peptide unit (on protein chain) | |
| 天冬苯丙二肽酯 | aspartame C14H18N2O (artificial sweetener) | |
| 肽聚糖 | peptidoglycan (PG) or murein (polymer of sugars and amino acids forming cell wall) | |
| 多肽 | polypeptide, chain of amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH, a component of protein | |
| 肽基 | peptide group; peptide unit | |
| 毒肽 | phallotoxin (biochemistry) | |
| 内啡肽 | endorphin | |
| 肽链 | peptide chain (chain of amino acids making up protein) | |
| 肽键 | peptide bond CO-NH; bond in protein between carboxyl radical and amino radical |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 太 — compare how they read.