qiàn​sù

alizarin

  • created sense approved 茜素 · qiàn​sù · alizarin — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    茜素

    qiàn​sù

    alizarin

    A red crystalline compound used as a dye, originally extracted from madder root but now synthesized chemically.

    茜 (literal) → 茜 · qiàn · madder 素 (literal) → 素 · sù · element

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense