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烧炭

shāo tàn

2-character word Traditional 燒炭

What 烧炭 means

1. to manufacture charcoal
2. to burn charcoal (often a reference to suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning)

The characters in 烧炭

• 烧shāoto burn; to set on fire; to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc); to braise
• 炭tànwood charcoal; coal

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