简体
繁體
pīnyīn
ㄅㄆㄇㄈ
méi
coal
Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 某 represents the sound.
火 Meaning component
huǒ
fire
某 Sound component
mǒu
certain thing or person
煤
coal, coke, charcoal, carbon; coal; CL:塊|块[kuài]
煤气
coal gas
煤矿
coal mine
煤炭
煤油
kerosene
Old Chinese
Middle Chinese
Pinyin
Gloss
*mˤə
mwoj
soot; coal
HSK level 5
Appears in 4.2127% of movies
2414th most common character in movies
1740th most common character in books
Strokes
Unicode
Make Me a Hanzi
Baxter-Sagart
Dong Chinese
CC-CEDICT
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