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Kanji Detail for 酸 - "sour, acid, oxygen"
酸
- Meaning
酸 means "sour, acid, oxygen."
Sour - Having an acidic taste; tangy.
Acid - A chemical compound; vinegar-like.
Painful - Causing suffering; bitter.
Oxygen - The chemical element (O).
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The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
acid; bitterness; sour; tart
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
tart, sour; acid; stiff; spoiled
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
sour; tart; sick at heart; grieved; sore; aching; pedantic; impractical; to make sarcastic remarks about sb; an acid
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
tart, sour; spoiled; acid
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
The taste of vinegar. | A chemistry term. Substances with a sour taste, such as hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid, are all called acids. | Pain is called 酸. As in the colloquial 腿酸 (leg soreness), 腰酸 (back soreness). | Grief is called 酸. As in 酸鼻 (moved to tears), 心酸 (heartache). | To describe a poor scholar, one says 寒酸 (impoverished).
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