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Information of 煤
Pinyin
méi
Radical
火
Strokes
13 strokes
Usage
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Definition
coal
煤 [méi]
〈名〉
1. Ancient plants buried underground that have undergone changes over a long time due to high temperatures and pressures in oxygen-deficient conditions, forming black or dark brown minerals.
- Examples: 煤矿 (coal mine), 煤田 (coal field), 煤层 (coal seam), 煤气 (coal gas), 煤焦油 (coal tar), 煤精 (coal refined product).
2. (Dialect) Black ash condensed from smoke, used as the main raw material for ink production.
- Examples: 煤炱 (soot), 松煤 (pine soot).
- 【本义】: 煙尘 (soot)
- 【造字法】: 形声 (pictophonetic character; composed of the elements for "fire" and "certain sound").
3. Same meaning as the original definition (soot).
- Example: 煤尾 (smoke residue in a room), also refers to soot used for ink.
4. Refers to ink.
- Reference: "In the Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo's 'Dream Pool Essays' discusses trying to use soot to make ink that has a shiny black color, like lacquer, known as pine ink."
5. Refers to the residue of a lamp wick, or snuff.
- Example: 煤火 (flame when coal is burning).
6. Coal, a type of black solid mineral.
- Examples: 煤毒 (coal gas), 煤炸 (small coal lumps), 煤掌 (working face in a coal mine), 煤气灶 (stove fueled by coal gas).
Input Method for 煤
Pinyin
mei2
Wubi
oafs|ofsy
Cangjie
ftmd
Zhengma
uoef
Four Corner
94894
Unicode
U+7164
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