U+783C, 砼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-783C

[U+783B]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+783D]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 112, +5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一口人一 (MROM), composition )

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 829, character 33
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2424, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+783C

Chinese

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simp. and trad.

Etymology

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Coined by Chinese architect Cai Fangyin in 1953.[1]

The glyph is a compound of 人工 (“man-made stone”). Pronunciation is from (tóng), treated as the phonetic component of the glyph. Serendipitously, the pronunciation also resembles the word for “concrete” in some European languages; cf. French béton, German Beton, Russian бето́н (betón).

Pronunciation

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Definitions

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  1. (technical) concrete

Usage notes

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  • Technical; the common name is 混凝土 (hùnníngtǔ).

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