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二糖 (にとう, nitou) Japanese meaning: disaccharide | Kotomora

二に糖とう

Meanings

1

disaccharide

Technical term in chemistry for a sugar composed of two monosaccharides.

スクロースは代だい表ひょう的てきな二に糖とうの一ひとつです。
Sucrose is one of the typical disaccharides.

Kanji

二two, two radical (no. 7)
糖sugar

Related words

単たん糖とう
単糖 (monosaccharide) is a single sugar unit, while 二糖 is composed of two monosaccharides.
多た糖とう
多糖 (polysaccharide) consists of many monosaccharide units, unlike 二糖 which has exactly two.

Word family

二に糖とう類るい

disaccharides

Etymology

Compound of 二 (two) and 糖 (sugar), directly describing a sugar made of two monosaccharide units.