熵

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 商 (“quotient”)

First produced by Chinese physical scientist Hu Gangfu (胡剛復) in 1923 to traslate the concept of entropy in thermodynamics, where 商 (quotient) means the quotient of heat and temperature, and 火 (fire) means it is relavent to the thermodynamics.

Han character

熵 (radical 86 火+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火卜金月 (FYCB), four-corner 9082₇)

1. entropy

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 681, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2229, character 14
• Unihan data for U+71B5

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Cantonese

Hanzi

熵 (Yale seung1)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

熵 (pinyin shāng (shang1), Wade-Giles shang¹)

Last modified on 10 October 2012, at 10:37