砼

砼 U+783C, 砼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-783C
← 砻
[U+783B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 砽 →
[U+783D]

Translingual

Han character

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

References
  • 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
simp. and trad.
 砼

Etymology

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

The glyph is a compound of 人工石 (“man-made stone”). Pronunciation is from 仝 (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

Definitions

砼

  1. (technical) concrete

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

Synonyms

References
  1. Early 21st-Century Power Struggles of Chinese Languages Teaching in US Higher Education, by Ya-chen Chen, p. 170 (at Google Books)
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