碳

碳 U+78B3, 碳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-78B3 ← 碲 [U+78B2] CJK Unified Ideographs 碴 → [U+78B4]

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
C
Previous: 硼 (péng) (B)
Next: 氮 (dàn) (N)

Glyph origin

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

Etymology

From 炭 (tàn, “charcoal”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tàn (tan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taan³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): than
• Min Dong (BUC): táng
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): thòaⁿ / thàn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): tuan³

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Shanghainese): ⁵the

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• 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 Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: than
    • Hakka Romanization System: tan
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tan⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰan⁵⁵/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: táng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑŋ²¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thòaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: thuànn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tvoax
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰuã¹¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰuã⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /tʰuã²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thàn
    • Tâi-lô: thàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: taxn
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰan²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰan⁴¹/

Note:

• thòaⁿ - vernacular;
• thàn - literary.

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

Wu

• (Shanghainese)
  • Wugniu: ⁵the
  • Wiktionary Romanisation: ²the
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰe̞³⁴/

Definitions

碳

1. (chemistry) carbon
2. (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
• 碳纖維／碳纤维
• 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

(uncommon “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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