蛋白質

See also: 蛋白质

Chinese

		egg white; albumen; protein	hostage; substance; nature hostage; substance; nature; quality
trad. (蛋白質)		蛋白	質
simp. (蛋白质)		蛋白	质

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 蛋(たん)白(ぱく)質(しつ) (tanpakushitsu, “protein”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dànbáizhì, dànbáizhí

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢˋ ㄅㄞˊ ㄓˋ, ㄉㄢˋ ㄅㄞˊ ㄓˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daan^6-2 baak⁶ zat¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tàn-pe̍k-chit / tàn-pia̍k-chit / tān-pe̍k-chit
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶de-baq-tseq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dànbáizhì
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢˋ ㄅㄞˊ ㄓˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dànbáijhìh
    • Wade–Giles: tan⁴-pai²-chih⁴
    • Yale: dàn-bái-jr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dannbairjyh
    • Palladius: даньбайчжи (danʹbajčži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵¹ paɪ̯³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dànbáizhí
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢˋ ㄅㄞˊ ㄓˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dànbáijhíh
    • Wade–Giles: tan⁴-pai²-chih²
    • Yale: dàn-bái-jŕ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dannbairjyr
    • Palladius: даньбайчжи (danʹbajčži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵¹ paɪ̯³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daan^6-2 baak⁶ zat¹
    • Yale: dáan baahk jāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daan^6-2 baak⁹ dzat⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: dan^6-2 bag⁶ zed¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːn²²⁻³⁵ paːk̚² t͡sɐt̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tàn-pe̍k-chit
    • Tâi-lô: tàn-pi̍k-tsit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: darnpegcid
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tan²¹⁻⁴¹ piɪk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sit̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tan¹¹⁻⁵³ piɪk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sit̚³²/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tan²¹⁻⁵³ piɪk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sit̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tan²¹⁻⁵³ piɪk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ t͡sit̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tàn-pia̍k-chit
    • Tâi-lô: tàn-pia̍k-tsit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: darnpiagcid
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tan⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ piak̚²⁴⁻² t͡sit̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tān-pe̍k-chit
    • Tâi-lô: tān-pi̍k-tsit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: daxnpegcid
    • IPA (Taipei): /tan³³⁻¹¹ piɪk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sit̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tan³³⁻²¹ piɪk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sit̚³²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶de-baq-tseq
    • MiniDict: de^去 bah tseh
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³de-baq-tseq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /de²² baʔ⁵⁵ t͡səʔ²¹/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 蛋白質

1. protein

   蛋白質折疊／蛋白质折叠  ―  dànbáizhì zhédié  ―  protein folding

   富含蛋白質／富含蛋白质  ―  fùhán dànbáizhì  ―  to be rich in proteins

2. (slang, derogatory) Short for 笨蛋 or 蠢蛋 + 白痴 (báichī) + 神經質／神经质 (shénjīngzhì): “one who is stupid, idiotic and neurotic”.

Synonyms

• (protein): (Hakka, Min Nan) 卵白質／卵白质

Descendants

• → Zhuang: danbwzciz

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
蛋	白	質
たん Hyōgaiji	はく > ぱく Grade: 1	しつ Grade: 5
on’yomi

Alternative forms

• タンパク質

Etymology

蛋白 (tanpaku, “egg white”) +‎ 質 (shitsu, “material”); the use of 蛋白 is a semantic loan from German Eiweiß.

Noun

蛋(たん)白(ぱく)質(しつ) • (tanpakushitsu) 

1. protein

Synonyms

• プロテイン (purotein)

Derived terms

• 蛋(たん)白(ぱく)質(しつ)分(ぶん)解(かい)酵(こう)素(そ) (tanpakushitsu bunkai kōso, “protease”)
• 緑(りょく)色(しょく)蛍(けい)光(こう)蛋(たん)白(ぱく)質(しつ) (ryokushoku keikō tanpakushitsu, “green fluorescent protein”)

Descendants

• → Chinese: 蛋白質／蛋白质 (dànbáizhì)
• → Korean: 단백질 (蛋白質, danbaekjil)

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Korean

Hanja in this term
蛋	白	質

Noun

蛋白質 • (danbaekjil or McCune-Reischauer: tanbaekchil or Yale: tānpaykqcil) (hangeul 단백질)

1. Hanja form^? of 단백질 (“protein”).