酰

酰 U+9170, 酰 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9170 ← 酯 [U+916F] CJK Unified Ideographs 酱 → [U+9171]

Translingual

Han character

酰 (Kangxi radical 164, 酉+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一田竹土山 (MWHGU), four-corner 1461₂, composition ⿰酉先)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1283, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3581, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9170

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Chinese

trad.		酰
simp. #		酰

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 酉 + phonetic 先 (OC *sɯːn, *sɯːns).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiān (xian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sin¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sian
    • Wade–Giles: hsien¹
    • Yale: syān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shian
    • Palladius: сянь (sjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sin¹
    • Yale: sīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn⁵⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 酰

1. (organic chemistry, Mainland China, Hong Kong) acyl

Synonyms

• (dated, still used in Taiwan) 醯 (xī)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C14730