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- sour
- tart
- sick at heart
- grieved
- sore
- aching
- pedantic
- impractical
- to make sarcastic remarks about sb
- an acid
Trad. 酸漿
- Chinese lantern plant (Physalis alkekengi); winter cherry; strawberry ground-cherry
- creeping oxalis (Oxalis corniculata)
- tamarind (Tamarindus indica) tropical tree with bean-like fruit
- pickled caper
Trad. 煙酸
- niacin (vitamin B3)
- 3-Pyridinecarboxylic acid C6H5NO2
- nicotinic acid
- nucleic acid
- (coll.) nucleic acid test (abbr. for 核酸檢測|核酸检测[he2 suan1 jian3 ce4])
Trad. 窮酸
- (of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic
- impoverished pedant
- to have a tingling sensation in one's nose (due to grief, pungent odor or taste)
- to be choked up
Trad. 縮氨酸
- peptide (two or more amino acids linked by peptide bonds CO-NH)
Trad. 酸奶節
- Lhasa Shoton festival or yogurt banquet, from first of July of Tibetan calendar
Trad. 菸鹼酸
- niacin (vitamin B3); nicotinic acid; Pyridine-3-carboxylic acid C6H5NO2
- hot and sour noodles (Sichuan-origin dish made with starch-based noodles)
Trad. 磷酸鈉
- sodium phosphate (Na3PO4), inorganic salt used in detergents and food processing
Trad. 磷酸鈣
- calcium phosphate (Ca3(PO4)2), inorganic salt used in fertilizers and food additives
Trad. 氫氯酸
- hydrochloric acid HCl
- also written 鹽酸|盐酸[yan2 suan1]
Trad. 氫鹵酸
- hydrohalic acid (e.g. hydrofluoric acid HF 氫氟酸|氢氟酸[qing1 fu2 suan1], hydrochloric acid HCl 鹽酸|盐酸[yan2 suan1] etc)
Trad. 毛酸漿
- husk ground-cherry; husk tomato (Physalis pubescens)
Trad. 酸不溜丟
- sour
- acrid
- (of a person) embittered
Trad. 黏果酸漿
- tomatillo (Physalis philadelphica)
Trad. 酸兒辣女
- if a woman likes to eat sour during pregnancy, she will have a boy; if she likes to eat spicy, she will have a girl (idiom)
Trad. 山梨酸鉀
- potassium sorbate, E202 (a food preservative)
- lit. sour, sweet, bitter and spicy (idiom)
- fig. all kinds of flavors; the joys and sorrows of life
- eosinophil granulocyte (type of white blood cell)
- phenylalanine (Phe), an essential amino acid
Trad. 苯甲酸鈉
- sodium benzoate, E211 (a food preservative)
Trad. 說葡萄酸
- sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop)
- lit. to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them
- cysteine (Cys), an amino acid
- mercaptoethyl amine
Trad. 醋酸纖維
- cellulose acetate (used for film and fiber)
Trad. 異亮氨酸
- isoleucine (Ile), an essential amino acid