煤méi
coal. 13 strokes, radical 火, first met in HSK 5.
Pinyin méiStrokes 13Radical 火Band HSK 5Words 2
How to write 煤
Strokes 1–4 write 火, then strokes 5–13 write 某.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 煤 · the stroke-order rules
What 煤 is made of
火 (huǒ, fire) and 某 (mǒu, some).
火 carries the meaning — fire — and 某 carries the sound.
Words that use 煤
| 煤 | coal 指从地下开采的黑色可燃矿物 港口清洁利用煤这种能源。The port made clean use of coal as an energy source. Lesson 456, 丹青经纬 · 商海统筹与求真明理 · Commercial Strategy & Rational Inquiry |
| 煤气 | coal gas, gas for cooking/heating 指利用煤炭制成的可燃气体 港口清洁利用煤气管道能源。The port made clean use of piped gas energy. Lesson 456, 丹青经纬 · 商海统筹与求真明理 · Commercial Strategy & Rational Inquiry |
Characters that share the sound part 某
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 火
All 19 of them, and what the radical means, on the 火 radical page.