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Chinese symbol for “adenosine”

腺苷
xiàn gān
adenosine

The closest CC-CEDICT match for adenosine is 腺苷 (xiàn gān), defined as: adenosine.

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Characters and stroke order

腺 xiàn
gland
radical 130 ⾁ · 13 strokes
苷 gān
licorice
radical 140 ⾋ · 8 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 腺苷.

WordPinyinMeaning
乳腺癌rǔ xiàn áibreast cancer
甲状腺 (甲狀腺)jiǎ zhuàng xiàn(anatomy) thyroid gland
前列腺qián liè xiànprostate gland
肾上腺素 (腎上腺素)shèn shàng xiàn sùadrenaline
乳腺rǔ xiànmammary gland
肾上腺 (腎上腺)shèn shàng xiànadrenal glands
核苷酸hé gān suānnucleotide
糖苷táng gānglycoside

See also: Japanese symbol for “adenosine”.

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.