碳

碳

碳 U+78B3, 碳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-78B3 ← 碲 [U+78B2] CJK Unified Ideographs 碴 → [U+78B4]

Translingual

Han character

碳 (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: volume 4, page 2443, character 10
• Unihan data for U+78B3

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Chinese

trad.		碳
simp. #		碳

Chemical element
C	Previous: 硼 (B)
	Next: 氮 (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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tàn (tan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taan³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): than
• Min Dong (BUC): táng
• Min Nan (POJ): thòaⁿ / thàn
• Wu (Wiktionary): the (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: tàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˋ
    • Wade–Giles: t'an⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tann
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: taan³
    • Yale: taan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taan³
    • Guangdong Romanization: tan³
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰäːn³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: than
    • Hakka Romanization System: tan
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tan⁴
    • IPA: /tʰan⁵⁵/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: táng
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰɑŋ²¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thòaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: thuànn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tvoax
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰuã¹¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰuã⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /tʰuã²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thàn
    • Tâi-lô: thàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: taxn
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰan²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰan⁴¹/

Note:

• thòaⁿ - vernacular;
• thàn - literary.

• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: the (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰe̞³⁴/

Definitions

碳

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

Compounds

一氧化碳 (yīyǎnghuàtàn) 中碳鋼／中碳钢 二氧化碳 (èryǎnghuàtàn) 低碳 (dītàn) 低碳經濟／低碳经济 (dītàn jīngjì) 氟碳塑膠／氟碳塑胶 活性碳 矽碳棒

碳化 (tànhuà) 碳化物 碳化硅 碳化鐵／碳化铁 碳循環／碳循环 碳氫化合物／碳氢化合物 (tàn-qīng huàhéwù) 碳水化合物 (tànshuǐ huàhéwù) 碳素鋼／碳素钢

碳纖維／碳纤维 碳酸 (tànsuān) 碳酸氣／碳酸气 (tànsuānqì) 碳酸氫鹽／碳酸氢盐 (tànsuān qīng yán) 碳酸鈣／碳酸钙 (tànsuāngài) 碳鋼／碳钢 (tàngāng) 碳黑 高碳鋼／高碳钢

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Japanese

Kanji

碳

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: たん (tan)
• Kan-on: たん (tan)

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Korean

Hanja

碳 • (tan) (hangeul 탄)

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Vietnamese

Han character

碳 (thán)

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