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

Etymology

From 炭 (tàn, “charcoal”).

Pronunciation

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

Definitions

碳

  1. (chemistry) carbon
  2. (ecology) carbon emissions (in the context of global warming and climate change)

Compounds

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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