熵
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Translingual
Han character
熵 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火卜金月 (FYCB), four-corner 90827, composition ⿰火商)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 681, character 14
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2229, character 14
- Unihan data for U+71B5
Chinese
| trad. | 熵 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 熵 | |
Glyph origin
Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 商 (shāng, “quotient”)
Coined by Chinese physical scientist Hu Gangfu in 1923 to translate the concept of entropy in thermodynamics, where 商 (shāng, “quotient”) represents the quotient of heat and temperature, and 火 (huǒ, “fire”) represents its relation to thermodynamics.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): soeng1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sông
- Eastern Min (BUC): siŏng
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siong
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 1saon
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: shāng
- Zhuyin: ㄕㄤ
- Tongyong Pinyin: shang
- Wade–Giles: shang1
- Yale: shāng
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shang
- Palladius: шан (šan)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʂɑŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: soeng1
- Yale: sēung
- Cantonese Pinyin: soeng1
- Guangdong Romanization: sêng1
- Sinological IPA (key): /sœːŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sông
- Hakka Romanization System: songˊ
- Hagfa Pinyim: song1
- Sinological IPA: /soŋ²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Eastern Min
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siong
- Tâi-lô: siong
- Phofsit Daibuun: siofng
- IPA (Xiamen): /siɔŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔŋ³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɔŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /siɔŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɔŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
Definitions
熵
- (physics, information theory, etc.) entropy