煤
Tap the pinyin to hear it
coal; CL:塊|块[kuai4]
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 煤
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 采煤工作面 | (mining) coalface | |
| 煤制气 | coal gasification | |
| 煤山雀 | (bird species of China) coal tit (Periparus ater) | |
| 煤制油 | coal liquefaction | |
| 煤层气 | coalbed methane | |
| 无烟煤 | anthracite | |
| 有烟煤 | smokey coal | |
| 黑煤玉 | jet | |
| 纸煤儿 | paper taper used to light cigarette etc | |
| 白煤 | anthracite; hard coal; white coal; waterpower | |
| 气煤 | gas coal | |
| 煤气 | coal gas; gas (fuel) | |
| 黑煤 | black coal | |
| 煤球 | charcoal briquette | |
| 煤油 | kerosene | |
| 原煤 | raw coal | |
| 元煤 | variant of 原煤[yuan2 mei2] | |
| 煤层 | a coal bed; a coal seam | |
| 煤田 | a coalfield | |
| 煤灰 | soot |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 某 — compare how they read.