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碳
碳
Translingual
Han character
碳 (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: not present, would follow page 833, character 29
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24363
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2443, character 10
- Unihan data for U+78B3
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
碳 | |
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Glyph origin
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 石 (“(chemical nomenclature) non-metal solid”) + 炭 (“charcoal”).
Etymology
From 炭 (tàn, “charcoal”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˋ
- Wade-Giles: t'an4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tann
- IPA (key): /tʰa̠n⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: taan3
- Yale: taan
- Cantonese Pinyin: taan3
- IPA (key): /tʰɑːn³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
Noun
碳
- (chemistry) carbon
- (ecology) carbon emissions (in the context of global warming and climate change)
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
碳
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
碳 • (tan) (hangeul 탄, revised tan, McCune-Reischauer t'an, Yale than)
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Vietnamese
Han character
碳 (thán)
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