mǎ lín

Traditional: 嗎啉

吗啉 (mǎ lín) is a Chinese word meaning “morpholine (chemistry) (loanword)”.

Meanings

  1. 1morpholine (chemistry) (loanword)

Characters in 吗啉

吗má · (coll.) what?啉lín · used in the transliteration of the names of organic compounds such as porphyrin 卟啉[bu3 lin2] and quinoline 喹啉[kui2 lin2]

Related words

吗(coll.) what?吗used in 嗎啡|吗啡[ma3 fei1]吗(question particle for "yes-no" questions)干吗variant of 幹嘛|干嘛[gan4 ma2]吗啡morphine (loanword)喹啉quinoline C6H4(CH)3N (pharm.) (loanword)不是吗isn't that so?不香吗(slang) would be better (abbr. for 這錢買排骨它不香嗎|这钱买排骨它不香吗[zhe4 qian2 mai3 pai2 gu3 ta1 bu4 xiang1 ma5] for that money, a pork cutlet would be more appetizing, would it not?)吗哪manna (Israelite food)吗喽(slang) monkey (often used humorously or self-deprecatingly by overworked laborers)约吗(neologism, attested by 2014) (slang) Are you interested? (originally an invitation for casual sex, later generalized as a playful or humorous invitation for any activity)卟啉porphyrin (organic chemical essential to hemoglobin and chlorophyll) (loanword)

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