méi

coal

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
火 meaning component

  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

某 sound component

  Sound component

mǒu

  

certain thing or person

Definitions

 

méi

coal, coke, charcoal, carbon; coal; CL:|[kuài]

Most common words with 煤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

coal

煤气

coal gas

煤矿

coal mine

煤炭

coal

煤油

kerosene

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤə

mwoj

méi

soot; coal


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 4.2127% of movies

2414th most common character in movies

1740th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+7164


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