酯
zhǐ

ester

酯 zhǐ
ester
A type of organic compound formed by the reaction of an alcohol and an acid with the loss of water. Low molecular weight esters are typically fragrant liquids used as solvents or flavorings, while high molecular weight esters are solids or thick liquids found in fats and oils.

Frequency
Character
Written text
4,412th most common 1.87 per million
Movie subtitles
3,341st most common 1.92 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.06 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
7.31 per million

Details
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+916F

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)