炭
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wood charcoal; coal
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 火 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 炭
- Common rank
- #1,889
- Unicode
- U+70AD
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Formation & memory
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Words with 炭
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冰炭不言，冷热自明 | ice or coals, whether hot or cold goes without saying (idiom); fig. sincerity is not expre… | |
| 冰炭不相容 | as incompatible or irreconcilable as ice and hot coals | |
| 石炭井区 | Shitanjing subdistrict of Dawukou district 大武口區|大武口区[Da4 wu3 kou3 qu1] of Shizuishan city … | |
| 活性炭 | activated carbon | |
| 石炭酸 | phenol C6H5OH; same as 苯酚 | |
| 石炭系 | carboniferous system; coal measure (geology) | |
| 无烟炭 | smokeless coal | |
| 雪中送炭 | lit. to send charcoal in snowy weather (idiom); fig. to provide help in sb's hour of need | |
| 石炭纪 | Carboniferous (geological period 354-292m years ago) | |
| 生灵涂炭 | people are in a terrible situation (idiom) | |
| 石炭井 | Shitanjing subdistrict of Dawukou district 大武口區|大武口区[Da4 wu3 kou3 qu1] of Shizuishan city … | |
| 石炭 | coal (old) | |
| 火炭 | Fo Tan (area in Hong Kong) | |
| 火炭 | live coal; ember; burning coals | |
| 黑炭 | coal; charcoal; (of skin) darkly pigmented; charcoal (color); bituminous coal (mining) | |
| 木炭 | charcoal | |
| 骨炭 | bone black; animal charcoal | |
| 艾叶炭 | carbonized mugwort leaf (used in TCM); Folium Artemisiae argyi carbonisatum | |
| 苍生涂炭 | see 生靈塗炭|生灵涂炭[sheng1 ling2 tu2 tan4] | |
| 泥炭 | peat |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 山 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 山 sound part | mountain, hill, peak | |
| 仙 | god; fairy; immortal, transcendent | |
| 灿 | vivid, illuminating, brilliant | |
| 汕 | bamboo; basket for catching fish; Shantou | |
| 讪 | to abuse, to slander, to vilify; to ridicule | |
| 籼 | non-glutinous long-grain rice | |
| 舢 | sampan, wooden boat | |
| 赸 | to jump; to leave | |
| 疝 | hernia; to rupture | |
| 氙 | xenon |