煤 (méi)
coal
How 煤 is written
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 火 — fire
- Traditional
- 煤
- Simplified
- 煤 (unchanged)
Common words using 煤
- 煤氣 méiqì
- coal gas; gas (fuel)
- 煤炭 méitàn
- coal
- 泥煤 níméi
- peat
- 煤油 méiyóu
- kerosene
- 煤球 méiqiú
- charcoal briquette
- 煤礦 méikuàng
- coal mine
- 採煤 cǎiméi
- coal mining; coal extraction; coal cutting
- 煤層氣 méicéngqì
- coalbed methane
- 煤渣 méizhā
- slack
- 煤灰 méihuī
- soot
- 煤焦油 méijiāoyóu
- coal tar
- 煤矸石 méigānshí
- waste rock (in coal mining)
煤 in a sentence
以前的人用煤炭來生火煮飯。
Yǐqián de rén yòng méitàn lái shēnghuǒ zhǔfàn.
“People in the past used coal to start fires for cooking.”
How common is 煤?
煤 is the 1,738th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 96% of all running text.
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