炭
tàn
Pinyin

Definition

炭
 - 
tàn
  1. wood charcoal
  2. coal

Character Decomposition

Compounds (2)

碳
tàn
  1. 1 carbon (chemistry)
羰
tāng
  1. 1 carbonyl (radical)

Related Words (15)

煤炭
méi tàn
  1. 1 coal
木炭
mù tàn
  1. 1 charcoal
活性炭
huó xìng tàn
  1. 1 activated carbon
火炭
Huǒ Tàn
  1. 1 Fo Tan (area in Hong Kong)
炭
tàn
  1. 1 wood charcoal
  2. 2 coal

Idioms (3)

冰炭不言，冷热自明
bīng tàn bù yán , lěng rè zì míng
  1. 1 ice or coals, whether hot or cold goes without saying (idiom); fig. sincerity is not expressed in words
生灵涂炭
shēng líng tú tàn
  1. 1 people are in a terrible situation (idiom)
雪中送炭
xuě zhōng sòng tàn
  1. 1 lit. to send charcoal in snowy weather (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to provide help in sb's hour of need

Sample Sentences

现在的很多企业的发展都还停留在使用煤炭等传统能源的水平，多年来一直是一种高能耗、高排放、低产出的状态，我们所要面对的环境问题真是一天比一天严峻。
xiàn zài de hěn duō qǐyè de fāzhǎn dōu hái tíng liú zài shǐyòng méitàn děng chuántǒng néngyuán de shuǐpíng ，duōnián lái yīzhí shì yīzhǒng gāo nénghào 、gāo páifàng 、dī chǎnchū de zhuàngtài ，wǒmen suǒ yào miànduì de huánjìng wèntí zhēn shì yītiān bǐ yītiān yánjùn 。
Now the development of many companies has stalled at using traditional energy resources like coal. For many years they have been high-consumption, high-emissions and low-productivity energy sources. The environmental problems we're facing are getting more serious every day.
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唉！不知道暴风雪会持续多久，想想那些连炭炉都没有的穷苦人家，这下又不知道要冻死多少人了。
ài ！bù zhīdào bàofēngxuě huì chíxù duō jiǔ ，xiǎngxiang nàxiē lián tànlú dōu méiyǒu de qióngkǔ rénjiā ，zhèxià yòu bù zhīdào yào dòng sǐ duōshao rén le 。
(Sigh) I wonder how long this snowstorm will last. If you think of all those poor people that can't even afford coal, you wonder how many people are going to freeze to death this time.
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电，风，煤炭，石油
diàn ，fēng ，méitàn ，shíyóu
electric, wind, coal, oil
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这是一根铜柱。我们知道纣王和妲己发明了炮烙之刑，这根铜柱就是施刑的工具。将铜柱置于炭火之上，令受刑的人在铜柱上行走，受刑之人受不了烫就掉在炭火之中被活活烧死。
zhè shì yī gēn tóngzhù 。wǒmen zhīdào Zhòuwáng hé Dájǐ fāmíng le páoluò zhī xíng ，zhè gēn tóngzhù jiùshì shīxíng de gōngjù 。jiāng tóngzhù zhìyú tànhuǒ zhī shàng ，lìng shòuxíng de rén zài tóngzhù shàng xíngzǒu ，shòuxíng zhī rén shòubuliǎo tàng jiù diào zài tànhuǒ zhīzhōng bèi huó huó shāo sǐ 。
This is a copper beam. We know that King Zhou and Daji invented torture by walking on a heated copper beam. This copper beam was an instrument in torture. The beam was placed upon a bed of hot coals, and someone being tortured would walk on the beam. The person being tortured would be unable to withstand the heat and would fall into the hot coals and burn to death.
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好的。食物挺多的，我们带的无烟炭够不够啊？
hǎo de 。shíwù tǐng duō de ，wǒmen dài de wúyāntàn gòu bu gòu a ？
OK. There’s so much food. Did we bring enough smoke free charcoal?
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当然了，这些传统能源用完就没有了。据估计，再过个五六十年，煤炭和石油就要被开采完了。到时候，全球就会陷入能源危机。
dāngrán le ，zhèxiē chuántǒng néngyuán yòng wán jiù méiyǒu le 。jù gūjì ，zài guò ge wǔ liùshí nián ，méitàn hé shíyóu jiùyào bèi kāicǎi wán le 。dào shíhou ，quánqiú jiù huì xiànrù néngyuán wēijī 。
Of course not. After these traditional energy sources are used up, they're no more. According to estimates, after another 50 or 60 years, coal and fossil fuels will all have been completely extracted. When that happens, the whole world will fall into an energy crisis.
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那煤炭、石油、天然气是不可再生的吗？
nà méitàn 、shíyóu 、tiānránqì shì bùkězàishēng de ma ？
Then coal, fossil fuel and natural gas aren't renewable?
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