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tàn
HSK 7freq #7624

Meanings

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tàn
  1. 1.carbon (chemistry)

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Wiktionary

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

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Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声): semantic 石 (“(chemical nomenclature) non-metal solid”) + phonetic 炭 (tàn, “charcoal”). From 炭 (tàn, “charcoal”).

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Components

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

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