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  *炭* | 炭* | *炭
wood charcoal / coal
HSK 7-9
charcoal
coal
HSK 7-9
to manufacture charcoal / to burn charcoal (often a reference to suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning)
coal (old)
Fo Tan (area in Hong Kong)
live coal / ember / burning coals
the common people in a miserable state
peat
coke (processed coal used in blast furnace)
extreme distress / in utter misery
bone black / animal charcoal
activated carbon
carbonized mugwort leaf (TCM) / Folium Artemisiae argyi carbonisatum
coal / charcoal / (of skin) darkly pigmented / charcoal (color) / bituminous coal (mining)
people are in a terrible situation (idiom)
lit. to send charcoal in snowy weather (idiom) / fig. to provide help in sb's hour of need
smokeless coal
carbonized mugwort leaf (used in TCM) / Folium Artemisiae argyi carbonisatum


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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