炭

炭 U+70AD, 炭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70AD ← 炬 [U+70AC] CJK Unified Ideographs 炮 → [U+70AE]

炭 U+2F91A, 炭 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F91A ← 灷 [U+2F919] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 𠔥 → [U+2F91B]

炭 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 山大火 (UKF) or 山一火 (UMF), four-corner 2228₉, composition ⿱山⿸厂火(HJKTV) or ⿱山灰(G))

• 㛶, 㨏, 湠, 碳, 羰

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

• Unihan data for U+2F91A

trad.		炭
simp. #		炭

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tŋ̊ʰaːns) : semantic 火 (“fire”) + abbreviated phonetic 岸 (OC *ŋɡaːns).

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

Derivative: 碳 (tàn, “carbon”).

(ACG slang) -tan

Borrowed from Japanese たん (tan). Also from the manga Binchō-tan, which features -tan suffix characters that are anthropomorphic representations of charcoal.

炭

1. charcoal

   炭火  ―  tànhuǒ  ―  charcoal fire

2. charcoal-like substance
3. charcoal fire; hot charcoal
4. (dialectal) coal

   肥炭 [Jin]  ―  xi¹ tan³ [Wiktionary]  ―  bituminous coal

   笨炭 [Jin]  ―  beng³ tan³ [Wiktionary]  ―  anthracite

5. Alternative form of 碳 (tàn, “carbon”)
6. (ACG, Internet slang) -tan

• (charcoal):

• (charcoal fire): 炭火 (tànhuǒ)
• (coal):

Others:

• → Khmer: ធ្យូង (thyuung)
• → Proto-Hmong-Mien: *thanᴴ (“charcoal”)
  • White Hmong: thee
• → Lao: ຖ່ານ (thān)
• → Thai: ถ่าน (tàan)
• → Vietnamese: than

Shinjitai	炭
Kyūjitai [1]	炭 炭 or 炭+︀?
	炭󠄁 炭+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	炭󠄃 炭+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Third grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 炭)

1. a coal or cinder from a fire
2. charcoal

• Go-on: たん (tan, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: たん (tan, Jōyō)
• Kun: すみ (sumi, 炭, Jōyō)

• 泥炭(すくも) (sukumo)

Kanji in this term
炭
すみ Grade: 3
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 炭 – see the following entry.

【すみ】 [noun] [from 762] charcoal [noun] [from early 900s] a coal or cinder from a fire [noun] [date uncertain] (rare) coal (fossil fuel)

(This term, 炭, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Kanji in this term
炭
たん Grade: 3

From Middle Chinese 炭 (MC thanH).

• (Tokyo) たん [táꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [tã̠ɴ]

炭(たん) • (tan) 

1. (rare) charcoal

   Synonyms: (more common; see above) 炭 (sumi), (literally “wood charcoal”) 木炭 (mokutan), (rare reading) 木炭 (kizumi)

2. (rare) coal (fossil fuel)

   Synonyms: (literally “stone charcoal”) 石炭 (sekitan), (rare reading) 石炭 (ishizumi)

This reading is only very rarely used as a standalone noun. Much more commonly encountered in compounds.

炭(たん) • (Tan) 

1. a surname

• Entry in Gogen-Allguide (in Japanese)

From Middle Chinese 炭 (MC thanH). Recorded as Middle Korean 탄〯 (thǎn) (Yale: than) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Wikisource

炭 (eumhun 숯 탄 (sut tan))

1. hanja form^? of 탄 (“charcoal; coal; carbon”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

炭: Hán Nôm readings: thán, than, tro

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