炭
tàn HSK7

charcoal

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Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 岸 represents the sound.

Components

火
火 Meaning component

Charcoal is made from burning wood.

岸
岸 SoundRemnant component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartthanH[tʰ]ˤa[n]-s charcoal, coal

說文解字

《說文》：“炭，燒木餘也。从火，岸省聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫zi.tools
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)