About
The character 肼 is a modern phono-semantic compound created to represent a specific chemical. It combines the semantic radical 月, originally meaning "meat" or "flesh" but adopted in modern chemistry to denote organic nitrogenous compounds, with the phonetic component 井 on the right, which indicates the pronunciation. This character was coined as the translation for hydrazine, following a chemical nomenclature system where the phonetic element approximates the foreign term and the radical specifies the chemical class.