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熵

shāng

Character

What 熵 means

1. entropy (character created in 1923)

Words containing 熵

• 内熵nèi shānginternal entropy (physics)
• 交叉熵jiāo chā shāngcross entropy (information theory)
• 等熵线děng shāng xiàn(physics) isentropic curve

Characters that look like 熵

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 摘zhāito take; to pick (flowers, fruit etc); to pluck; to remove…
• 滴dīto drip; to let drip; to apply (eye drops etc); (bound form) a drop (of liquid)
• 燔fánburn; to roast meat for sacrifice
• 慵yōnglethargic
• 辘lùused in 辘辘; used in 轱辘; used in 辘轳
• 嫡dí(bound form) of or by the wife, as opposed to a concubine (contrasted with 庶

Sounds the same

Read shāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 商commerce; merchant; dealer
• 伤to injure; injury; wound
• 殇to die in childhood; war dead
• 汤rushing current
• 觞feast; goblet
• 墒plowed earth; soil moisture; furrow
• 謪to discuss (old variant of 商
• 漡old variant of 汤