See also:
U+70AD, 炭
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70AD

[U+70AC]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+70AE]
炭 U+2F91A, 炭
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F91A
灷
[U+2F919]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 𠔥
[U+2F91B]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 86, +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 山大火 (UKF) or 山一火 (UMF), four-corner 22289, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 668, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18953
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1077, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2195, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+70AD

Chinese

trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tŋ̊ʰaːns
*tʰaːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tŋ̊ʰaːns) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *ŋɡaːns).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tal (charcoal; dust; ashes). Cognate with Tibetan ཐལ་བ (thal ba, ashes; dust; dirt).

Derivative: (tàn, “carbon”).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • thàn - literary;
  • thòaⁿ - vernacular.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (6)
Final () (61)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰanH/
Li
Rong
/tʰɑnH/
Wang
Li
/tʰɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tʰɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tàn
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ thanH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[tʰ]ˁa[n]-s/
English charcoal, coal

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 12356
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tŋ̊ʰaːns/

Definitions

  1. charcoal
  2. charcoal fire
  3. coal
  4. coal-like substance
  5. Alternative form of (tàn, “carbon”).
  6. (ACG, Internet, slang, from Japanese たん (tan)) -tan

Compounds

  • 冰炭
  • 冰炭不洽
  • 吞炭
  • 吞炭漆身
  • 塗炭涂炭 (tútàn)
  • 塗炭生民涂炭生民
  • 塗炭生靈涂炭生灵
  • 戴炭簍子戴炭篓子
  • 打醋炭
  • 握炭流湯握炭流汤
  • 木炭 (mùtàn)
  • 木炭畫木炭画 (mùtànhuà)
  • 民墜塗炭民坠涂炭
  • 民生塗炭民生涂炭
  • 泥炭 (nítàn)
  • 浮炭
  • 漆身吞炭
  • 瀝青炭沥青炭
  • 火炭 (huǒtàn)
  • 灰炭
  • 炭化 (tànhuà)
  • 炭墼
  • 炭層炭层
  • 炭敬
  • 炭火 (tànhuǒ)
  • 炭烤
  • 炭疽病 (tànjūbìng)
  • 炭盆
  • 炭窩炭窝
  • 炭窯炭窑
  • 炭筆炭笔 (tànbǐ)
  • 炭筆畫炭笔画
  • 炭簍子炭篓子
  • 炭米
  • 炭精
  • 炭精棒
  • 炭精筆炭精笔
  • 炭精紙炭精纸
  • 焦炭 (jiāotàn)
  • 煤炭 (méitàn)
  • 熛炭
  • 熟炭
  • 熾炭炽炭
  • 獸炭兽炭
  • 生民塗炭生民涂炭
  • 生炭
  • 生靈塗炭生灵涂炭
  • 白炭
  • 石炭 (shítàn)
  • 石炭紀石炭纪 (Shítànjì)
  • 紅頭黑炭红头黑炭
  • 草炭
  • 荼炭
  • 褐炭
  • 踐冰履炭践冰履炭
  • 雪中送炭 (xuězhōngsòngtàn)
  • 雪裡送炭雪里送炭
  • 骨炭 (gǔtàn)
  • 麩炭麸炭
  • 黑炭

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():

Others:


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. coal
  2. charcoal

Readings

Compounds

Noun

(hiragana すみ, rōmaji sumi)

  1. charcoal

Korean

Hanja

(tan) (hangeul , revised tan, McCuneReischauer t'an, Yale than)

  1. charcoal
  2. coal
  3. carbon

Vietnamese

Han character

(thán, than, tro)

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