炭
tàn HSK7

charcoal

炭 tàn
charcoal noun
wood charcoal or carbonized organic material used for fuel, heating, or drawing

烧烤时，我们需要用到优质的木炭。

shāo​kǎo shí, wǒ​men xū​yào yòng​dào yōu​zhì de mù tàn.

We need to use high-quality charcoal for the barbecue.

coal noun
a combustible black rock consisting of carbonized plant matter, often used synonymously with 煤 méi in compounds

这里的煤炭资源非常丰富。

zhè​lǐ de méi tàn zī​yuán fēi​cháng fēng​fù.

Coal resources are very abundant here.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,369th most common 22.8 per million
Movie subtitles
2,779th most common 5.04 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.76 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
7.25 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+70AD

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)