Word information
Simplified苯甲酸钠
Traditional苯甲酸鈉
Pinyinběn jiǎ suān nà
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Chinese word dictionary
苯甲酸钠
běn jiǎ suān nà · sodium benzoate, E211 (a food preservative)
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sour; tart; sick at heart; grieved; sore; aching; pedantic; impractical; to make sarcastic remarks about sb; an acid
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甲jiǎfirst of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; (used for an unspecified person or thing); first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc); letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; armor plating; shell or carapace; (of the fingers or toes) nail; bladed leather or metal armor (old); ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old); civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old); ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
酸甜苦辣suān-tián-kǔ-làlit. sour, sweet, bitter and spicy (idiom); fig. all kinds of flavors; the joys and sorrows of life
心酸xīnsuānto feel sad
辛酸xīnsuānpungent (taste); bitter; fig. sad; miserable