炭

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 屵 (“mountain, cliff”) + 火 (“fire”) – flammable substance from under a mountain (mined coal).

Unrelated to similar 灰 (“ash”).

Han character

炭 (radical 86 火+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 山大火 (UKF), 山一火 (UMF), four-corner 2228₉)

1. charcoal
2. coal
3. carbon

See also

• 灰

References

• KangXi: page 668, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18953
• Dae Jaweon: page 1077, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2195, character 15
• Unihan data for U+70AD

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Cantonese

Hanzi

炭 (Yale taan3)

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Japanese

Kanji

炭 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. coal
2. charcoal

Readings

• On: たん (tan)
• Kun: すみ (sumi)

Compounds

• 炭田
• 炭化
• 炭鉱
• 炭酸
• 炭素
• 泥炭
• 木炭
• 採炭
• 薪炭

Noun

炭 (hiragana すみ, romaji sumi)

1. charcoal

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Korean

Hanja

炭 (hangeul 탄, revised tan, McCune-Reischauer t'an, Yale than)

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Mandarin

simpl. and trad.
炭

Etymology

• 山 shān mountain + 灰 huī ash.

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

炭 (pinyin tàn (tan4), Wade-Giles t'an⁴)

Noun

炭 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin tàn)

1. charcoal
2. coal
3. carbon

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Vietnamese

Han character

炭 (thán, than, tro)