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The kanji 炭: meaning, readings and stroke order
炭
- Meaning
- charcoal
- On reading
- タン tan
- Kun reading
- すみ sumi
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 火 fire
- Level
- Level 3 · grade 3
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- than (thán)
- Japanese
- すみ。もやす くろい もの。
- Korean
- 숯 (탄)
- Chinese
- 炭、木炭
Readings, words and example sentences
タン tan · on reading
石炭
coal
むかしは 石炭で 汽車が 走りました。
Long ago, trains ran on coal.
すみ sumi · kun reading
炭
charcoal
炭で 肉を やきます。
We grill meat over charcoal.
Practise writing 炭 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 炭 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 3 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.