糖
sugar; sweets; candy; CL:顆|颗[ke1],塊|块[kuai4]
16 strokes
Dict coverage rank #517 U+7CD6
How 糖 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
米 (semantic, “rice”) + 唐 (phonetic, táng)
How to remember it
sugar · Heisig RSH #955
米 rice + 唐 Tang
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 唐
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 唐 (táng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 唐 sound component | 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 |
Words containing 糖
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |