Chinese symbol for “peptide”
肽
tài
peptide (two or more amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for peptide is 肽 (tài), defined as: peptide (two or more amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “peptide”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 缩氨酸 (縮氨酸) | suō ān suān | peptide (two or more amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 肽.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 多肽 | duō tài | polypeptide, chain of amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH, a component of protein |
| 内啡肽 (內啡肽) | nèi fēi tài | endorphin |
| 肽键 (肽鍵) | tài jiàn | peptide bond CO-NH; bond in protein between carboxyl radical and amino radical |
| 肽链 (肽鏈) | tài liàn | peptide chain (chain of amino acids making up protein) |
| 肽基 | tài jī | peptide group; peptide unit |
| 肽聚糖 | tài jù táng | peptidoglycan (PG) or murein (polymer of sugars and amino acids forming cell wall) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “peptide”.
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.