About
The character 甙 is a phono-semantic compound with 甘 (sweet) as the semantic component, indicating the sugar element, and 弋 as the phonetic component, providing its pronunciation. It was created specifically for modern chemical terminology to denote a glycoside, a molecule where a sugar is bound to another functional group. As a technical term, its use is confined to organic chemistry and pharmacology, and it does not appear in everyday language.