碳

碳	U+78B3, 碳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-78B3

Translingual

Han character

碳 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+9, 14 strokes, Cangjie input 一口山大火 (MRUKF) or 一口山一火 (MRUMF), four-corner 1268₉, composition ⿰石炭)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 833, character 29
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24363
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2443, character 10
Unihan data for U+78B3

Chinese

trad.		碳
simp. ^#		碳

Chemical element ^(edit)

C
Atomic number 6
碳 (tàn)

Alternative names: 炭素 (tànsù)

Classification data

Period	2
Group	14
Block	p-block
Class	nonmetal

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Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 石 (“(chemical nomenclature) non-metal solid”) + phonetic 炭 (tàn, “charcoal”).

Etymology

From 炭 (tàn, “charcoal”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tàn (tan⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): taan³
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): than
Eastern Min (BUC): táng
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): thòaⁿ / thàn

(Teochew, Peng'im): tuan³
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵the

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tàn
  - Wade–Giles: tʻan⁴
  - Yale: tàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tann
  - Palladius: тань (tanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰän⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: taan³
  - Yale: taan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: taan³
  - Guangdong Romanization: tan³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːn³³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: than
  - Hakka Romanization System: tan
  - Hagfa Pinyim: tan⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰan⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: táng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑŋ²¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thòaⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: thuànn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tvoax
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /tʰuã¹¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰuã⁴¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /tʰuã²¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thàn
  - Tâi-lô: thàn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: taxn
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰan²¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰan⁴¹/

Note:

thòaⁿ - vernacular;
thàn - literary.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: tuan³
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thuàⁿ
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰũã²¹³/

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵the
  - MiniDict: the^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²the
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /tʰe³⁴/

Definitions

碳

(chemistry) carbon
(ecology) carbon emissions (in the context of global warming and climate change)

Compounds

一氧化碳 (yīyǎnghuàtàn)
中碳鋼 / 中碳钢
二氧化碳 (èryǎnghuàtàn)
低碳 (dītàn)
低碳經濟 / 低碳经济 (dītàn jīngjì)
氟碳塑膠 / 氟碳塑胶
活性碳
矽碳棒
碳化 (tànhuà)
碳化物 (tànhuàwù)
碳化硅 (tànhuàguī)
碳化鐵 / 碳化铁
碳循環 / 碳循环 (tànxúnhuán)
碳氫化合物 / 碳氢化合物 (tàn-qīng huàhéwù)
碳水化合物 (tànshuǐ huàhéwù)
碳素鋼 / 碳素钢 (tànsùgāng)
碳纖維 / 碳纤维 (tànxiānwéi)
碳酸 (tànsuān)
碳酸氣 / 碳酸气 (tànsuānqì)
碳酸氫鹽 / 碳酸氢盐 (tànsuān qīng yán)
碳酸鈣 / 碳酸钙 (tànsuāngài)
碳鋼 / 碳钢 (tàngāng)
碳黑
高碳鋼 / 高碳钢

Japanese

Kanji

碳

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: たん (tan)
Kan-on: たん (tan)

Korean

Hanja

碳 (eum 탄 (tan))

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Vietnamese

Han character

碳: Hán Nôm readings: thán

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