哌 (pài) · pipe-

Meanings

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Characters

哌

pài

transliteration character used in chemistry (pipe-)

Examples

HSK 7-9

哌啶是一种常见的有机化合物。

Pài dīng shì yì zhǒng chángjiàn de yǒujī huàhéwù.

Piperidine is a common organic compound.

HSK 7-9

哌嗪常用于驱虫药物中。

Pài qín chángyòng yú qūchóng yàowù zhōng.

Piperazine is commonly used in antiparasitic medicines.

Tips

usage

哌 is a phonetic transliteration character used primarily in chemistry. It appears almost exclusively in compound terms like 哌啶 (piperidine), 哌嗪 (piperazine), and 哌替啶 (pethidine). It has no meaning on its own outside of these chemical contexts.

Components

radical

口 kǒu

mouth

Left-side mouth radical - a small square depicting an open mouth. Indexes 哌 in the chemical-name family alongside 吡 (pyrr-), 啶 (-idine), 噻 (thi-) - the mouth radical routinely marks transliterations and chemistry coinages. Here it flags 哌 as a pronounced syllable rather than a meaningful word.

phonetic

氏 shì

clan; surname (here fused phonetic)

Right side is fused: a top hook joins 氏 below as the historical right portion of 派 (river-currents glyph). Standalone 氏 has 4 strokes; here 6 are assigned because the hook sits above 氏 as part of the same phonetic unit. The fused unit reads pài in 派, carried over to 哌 unchanged.