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Definitions
- 1. wood charcoal
- 2. coal
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Usage notes
Collocations
炭 is often used in compound words like 煤炭 (coal) or 炭火 (charcoal fire), but rarely alone in modern Chinese.
Common mistakes
Do not confuse 炭 (charcoal/coal) with 碳 (carbon). 二氧化碳 (CO₂) uses 碳, not 炭.
Example Sentences
1 shown这块 炭 烧得很旺。
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Words Containing 炭
coal
as incompatible or irreconcilable as ice and hot coals
extreme distress
charcoal
peat
matted sphagnum moss (Sphagnum palustre)
activated carbon
Fo Tan (area in Hong Kong)
coal briquette
charcoal-roasted
(medicine) anthrax
anthrax bacterium (Bacillus anthracis)
anthrax
(medicine) anthrax
anthrax vaccine
smokeless coal
to manufacture charcoal
people are in a terrible situation (idiom)
Shitanjing subdistrict of Dawukou district 大武口區|大武口区[dà wǔ kǒu qū] of Shizuishan city 石嘴山市[shí zuǐ shān shì], Ningxia
Shitanjing subdistrict of Dawukou district 大武口區|大武口区[dà wǔ kǒu qū] of Shizuishan city 石嘴山市[shí zuǐ shān shì], Ningxia
carboniferous system
Carboniferous (geological period 354-292m years ago)
phenol C6H5OH
carbonized mugwort leaf (TCM)
Folium Artemisiae argyi carbonisatum
the common people in a miserable state
cutaneous anthrax
lit. to send charcoal in snowy weather (idiom)
bone black
coal