酸 — Chinese character
酸
suān
tart, sour; spoiled; acid
- Pinyin
- suān
- Radical
- 164 ⾣ (Wine)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 酉 夋
- Formation
- ideographic — Wine 酉 aged too long 夋; 夋 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 酸 as a kanji
Common words with 酸
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 氨基酸 | ān jī suān | amino acid |
| 酸性 | suān xìng | acidity |
| 硫酸 | liú suān | sulfuric acid |
| 酸奶 | suān nǎi | yogurt |
| 核酸 | hé suān | nucleic acid; (coll.) nucleic acid test (abbr. for 核酸检测 (hé suān jiǎn cè)) |
| 硝酸 | xiāo suān | nitric acid |
| 酸痛 | suān tòng | to ache |
| 脂肪酸 | zhī fáng suān | fatty acid |
| 盐酸 (鹽酸) | yán suān | hydrochloric acid |
| 辛酸 | xīn suān | pungent (taste); bitter |
| 碳酸 | tàn suān | carbonic acid |
| 磷酸 | lín suān | phosphoric acid |
English words written with 酸
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.