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Chinese symbol for “glycogen”

糖原
táng yuán
glycogen

The closest CC-CEDICT match for glycogen is 糖原 (táng yuán), defined as: glycogen.

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Characters and stroke order

糖 táng
candy, sugar, sweets
radical 119 ⽶ · 16 strokes
原 yuán
source, origin, beginning
radical 27 ⼚ · 10 strokes

Other Chinese words for “glycogen”

WordPinyinMeaning
肝糖gān tángglycogen
动物淀粉 (動物澱粉)dòng wù diàn fěnglycogen
肝醣gān táng(Tw) glycogen

Related words

Other words that share a character with 糖原.

WordPinyinMeaning
糖果táng guǒcandy; measure word: 粒 (lì)
糖尿病táng niào bìngdiabetes; diabetes mellitus
血糖xuè tángblood sugar
葡萄糖pú tao tángglucose C6H12O6
蔗糖zhè tángcane sugar; sucrose
口香糖kǒu xiāng tángchewing gum
原因yuán yīncause; origin
原来 (原來)yuán láioriginal; former; originally; formerly; at first

See also: Japanese symbol for “glycogen”.

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.