喹 · kuí
quinoxaline (chemical compound)
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
quinoxaline (chemical compound)
- Mandarin
- kuí
- Cantonese
- kwai4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+55B9
- Radical
- 口 · 30
- Strokes
- 12 · Unihan
- Residual
- 9
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
12 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 喹
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- kuí
- kCantonese
- kwai4
- kDefinition
- quinoxaline (chemical compound)
- kTotalStrokes
- 12
- kRSUnicode
- 30.9
- kTGH
- 2013:5132
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- kuí 10652.070
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- kuí 0662.060
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- kuí 203.050
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- kuí粵kwai4