碳
Carbon C · 6
solid non-metal · period 2, group 14 · p-block
Anatomy
石 radical 石 shí
stone → solid non-metal
+ stone → solid non-metal
炭 phonetic
= 碳 tàn
Ancient name. Known in China long before modern chemistry; the old character was kept. Known since ancient times
Homophones
Same syllable, different tone: 钽 tǎn Tantalum.
Unicode
U+78B3 in CJK Unified Ideographs