"Charcoal" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 木炭 | mù tàn | charcoal |   |
| 黑炭 | hēi tàn | coal / charcoal / (of skin) darkly pigmented / charcoal (color) / bituminous coal (mining) | |
| 雪中送炭 | xuě zhōng sòng tàn | lit. to send charcoal in snowy weather (idiom) / fig. to provide help in sb's hour of need | |
| 煤球 | méi qiú | charcoal briquette | |
| 卖炭翁 | Mài Tàn Wēng | The Old Charcoal Seller, poem by Tang poet Bai Juyi 白居易[Bai2 Ju1 yi4] | |
| 炭 |  tàn | wood charcoal / coal | |
| 烧炭 | shāo tàn | to manufacture charcoal / to burn charcoal (often a reference to suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning) | |
| 骨炭 | gǔ tàn | bone black / animal charcoal | |
| 焦炙 | jiāo zhì | to scorch / to burn to charcoal / sick with worry | |
