碳 carbon 岩,灰,石,炭,

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タン
TA　N

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岩

ガン,いわ cliff, rocks, boulder, crag

　PEAKED STONE
…or: GLANS and ROCKS
　

灰

カイ,はい ash, discouraged, dejected, ashen, gray, to incinerate

　CLIFF or HAND and HEATED, IN HEAT BURNING ON FIRE FLAMING
…or: ROD ERECT IN HEAT
　

石

セキ,シャク,コク,いし rocky or rock-like, stones, rocks, minerals

　LATERAL MOTION, ROD and HEAD SLIDING or ERECTION with ORIFICE, MOUTH, CAVITY OR PASSAGE OF THE BODY
　

炭

タン,すみ wood charcoal, carbonized, coal; wood that has been heated fired and with all fluids removed

　CLIFFHANGER BUTTE, GLAND EXTENDING FROM HAND and HEATED IN FIRE
…or: PEAKED LAVA CONE, WADDED BUNDLE OF RAW STICKY THREADS, GLANS, ROD in CAVITY with SADNESS THAT SOMETHING ENDED, DEJECTED, ASHES
　

Meanings of elements

MINERAL of ASH
…or: BIG ROCKS, THRUST UPWARD and DIS-HEARTEN
…or: STONES, ROCKS with WOOD THAT HAS BEEN HEATED AND FIRED
…or: GLANS and ROCKS FLAMED BY HAND
…or: PEAKED with FLAME-OUT

Elements describe the mineral found in ash as CARBON. Analogy of「flamed out woody, rocks, and glans protruding from hand」continues in this glyph. A secondary meaning of the「ash」element is「dishearten」that literally means no longer having heart, not a heart—see 心「heart, appendage spewing drops, bent penis」as no longer spewing, now spent and flamed-out (not flaming 火 now).

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: carbon (chemistry)
Unihan extended: carbon
EDRDG: carbon

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