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Chinese symbol for “acyl”

醯
xī
acyl

The closest CC-CEDICT match for acyl is 醯 (xī), defined as: acyl.

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Characters and stroke order

醯 xī
vinegar, acid; to pickle
radical 164 ⾣ · 19 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 醯.

WordPinyinMeaning
烟醯胺 (菸醯胺)yān xī àn(Tw) nicotinamide; niacinamide
烟碱醯胺 (菸鹼醯胺)yān jiǎn xī àn(Tw) nicotinamide; niacinamide

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.