Chinese symbol for “amino”
氨基
ān jī
amino; amino group
The closest CC-CEDICT match for amino is 氨基 (ān jī), defined as: amino; amino group.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 氨基.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 氨基酸 | ān jī suān | amino acid |
| 聚氨酯 | jù ān zhǐ | polyurethane |
| 谷氨酸 (穀氨酸) | gǔ ān suān | glutamic acid (Glu), an amino acid |
| 氨气 (氨氣) | ān qì | ammonia (gas) |
| 氨水 | ān shuǐ | ammonia solution |
| 基础 (基礎) | jī chǔ | base; foundation; basis; basic; fundamental |
| 基本 | jī běn | basic; fundamental |
| 基地 | jī dì | base (of operations, industrial, military, research etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “amino”.
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.