酰 · xiān
acyl
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
acyl
- Mandarin
- xiān
- Cantonese
- sin1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+9170
- Radical
- 酉 · 164
- Strokes
- 13 · Unihan
- Residual
- 6
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
13 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 酰
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
- xiān
- kCantonese
- sin1
- kDefinition
- acyl
- kTotalStrokes
- 13
- kRSUnicode
- 164.6
- kTGH
- 2013:5413
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- xiān 63581.020
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- xiān 1245.010
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- xiān 397.120
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- xiān粵sin1