煤
Meanings
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- 1.coal
- 2.CL:块[kuài]
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Wiktionary
- 1.coal (Classifier: 塊／块 m c; 嚿 c)
- 2.dust of smoke; soot
- 3.ink
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *mɯː): semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 某 (OC *mɯʔ). Sino-Tibetan. Schuessler (2007) proposes two possibilities: * Cognate with Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-mu² (“soot; acrid (smoke)”). If related, a merger of Minimal Old Chinese *ə with *o must have occurred. * Cognate with Mizo mang (maŋᴿ), man (manᴸ, “sooty”), Mizo mang (maŋᴴ, “partially burnt wood”). 文 (OC *mɯn) may be a derivation with -n nominal suffix. 黑 (OC *hmlɯːɡ, “black”) may be an allofam. Unrelated to 晦 (OC *hmɯːs, “dark”) according to Schuessler (2007).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
煤并不一定都是黑的。
Coal is not always black.
煤和天然氣是天然燃料。
Coal and natural gas are natural fuels.
許多勞動者受困在煤礦場中。
Many workers were trapped in the coal mine.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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