炭 tàn
“charcoal; coal; carbon”
On its own, an ordinary character; Cantonese taan3. Readings and gloss from the Unicode Unihan database.
“charcoal; coal; carbon”
On its own, an ordinary character; Cantonese taan3. Readings and gloss from the Unicode Unihan database.
Not a plain transliteration: the component was chosen for its meaning, or the name is older than the system.
The element keeps the component’s reading exactly.