酸 (suān)
sour; sore; ache
How 酸 is written
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 酉 — wine/alcohol
- Traditional
- 酸
- Simplified
- 酸 (unchanged)
Components
- 酉 wine/alcohol
- 厶 private
- 八 eight/divide
- 夂 go
Common words using 酸
- 心酸 xīnsuān
- to feel sad
- 酸奶 suānnǎi
- yogurt
- 酸痛 suāntòng
- ache
- 乳酸 rǔsuān
- lactic acid
- 乳酸菌 rǔsuānjūn
- lactic acid bacteria
- 亞硝酸鹽 yàxiāosuānyán
- nitrite
- 寒酸 hánsuān
- wretched; poverty-stricken; unpresentable (for clothing, gifts etc)
- 檸檬酸 níngméngsuān
- citric acid
- 氨基酸 ānjīsuān
- amino acid
- 泛酸 fànsuān
- pantothenic acid; vitamin B5; to surge up (of acid in the stomach)
- 玻尿酸 bōniàosuān
- hyaluronic acid; hyaluronan
- 甜酸 tiánsuān
- sweet and sour
酸 in a sentence
我今天腿很酸。
Wǒ jīntiān tuǐ hěn suān.
“My legs are very sore today.”
How common is 酸?
酸 is the 1,454th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 94.2% of all running text.
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