phonetic map : 炭 tan

server up and running again, so full list of maps now accessible.

Oh, OK.

I will go on and provide the linear CSV-material for the rest of the rest of the published groups.

yes, I mentioned this in another post, the server is down this morning. will notify when it comes back up, it includes a list of all maps published so far, both the table versions here at CPod, and the circular arrangements on my website.

Thanks, the Copy-Paste-fingers are already sore ;)

The list-link you provided doesn't work for me (browser complains about some sort of server sided disconnect).

ok, no more maps this morning :-) obviously henning has decided to march on with his CSV macro, doesn't need help... at least you can access the full list.

CSV-list (for the import to Flashcard apps; "@" is delimeter):

二氧化碳@èryǎnghuàtàn@CO2
炭@tàn@charcoal
石炭@shítàn@coal
碳@tàn@carbon
羰@tāng@carbonyl
羰基@tāngjī@carbonyl (group)

"炭" is a little "strange" character since it had almost the same pronunciation as modern "tan" more than two thousand years ago. In short, the sound didn't change.

In general, the sounds of Chinese characters (in Mandarin) have changed greatly over a very long time, but some of them still preserve their ancient pronunciations.

For example, they are 安 (an), 看 (kan), 炭 (tan), 单 (dan), 汉 (han), 兰 (lan),  难 (nan), 当 (dang), 囊 (nang), 朗 (lang) and so on. Looks like the vowel "an" is very stable.

note that 炭 is not part of Wieger's list, but 灰 (hui) is, with 炭 having 灰 as a component.