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The character 肼 is a relatively modern phono-semantic compound coined as the Chinese translation for hydrazine, an inorganic compound. It combines the semantic radical 月 (originally 'meat' or 'flesh') on the left, repurposed by modern chemists to signify organic nitrogen-containing compounds or amines, with the phonetic 井 (jǐng) on the right, which supplies the pronunciation. The construction follows the chemical naming convention: the phonetic approximates the foreign pronunciation or systematic name, while the radical indicates the compound's chemical class.
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