煤

煤 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 火廿一木 (FTMD), four-corner 9489₄, composition ⿰火某)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 677, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19220
• Dae Jaweon: page 1088, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2214, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7164

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mɯː) : semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 某 (OC *mɯʔ).

Sino-Tibetan. Schuessler (2007) proposes two possibilities:

• Cognate with Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-mu² (“soot; acrid (smoke)”). If related, a merger of Minimal Old Chinese *ə with *o must have occurred.
• Cognate with Mizo mang (maŋᴿ), man (manᴸ, “sooty”), Mizo mang (maŋᴴ, “partially burnt wood”).

文 (OC *mɯn) may be a derivation with -n nominal suffix. 黑 (OC *hmlɯːɡ, “black”) may be an allofam. Unrelated to 晦 (OC *hmɯːs, “dark”) according to Schuessler (2007).

煤

1. coal (Classifier: 塊／块 m c; 嚿 c)
2. ^† dust of smoke; soot

   • 向者煤室入甑中，棄食不祥，回攫而飯之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     向者煤室入甑中，弃食不祥，回攫而饭之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Lü Buwei, Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals, 239 BCE

     Xiàngzhě méi shì rù zèng zhōng, qì shí bùxiáng, Huí jué ér fàn zhī. [Pinyin]

     Just now some dust and soot fell into the steamer. Ill fortune befalls those who throw away food; so I grabbed those grains and ate them.

3. ^† ink

• → Guiqiong: mɛi (“coal”)

• “煤”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

• Go-on: まい (mai)、め (me)
• Kan-on: ばい (bai)
• Kun: すす (susu, 煤)

From Old Japanese, first attested in the Kojiki (712 CE).

Possibly related to 炭 (sumi, “cinder; charcoal”).

• (Tokyo) すす [súꜜsù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1][2]
• (Tokyo) すす [sùsúꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [sɨsɨ]

煤(すす) • (susu) 

1. soot (fine particles of amorphous carbon and tar)
2. sooted dirt or dust accumulated in ceilings, walls, etc.
3. Short for 煤色 (susuiro): a shade of black as in the color of soot

From Middle Chinese 煤 (MC mwoj). Compare modern Min Nan reading bôe.

煤(ばい) • (bai) 

1. soot
2. coal

• 炭 entry at Gogen-Allguide (in Japanese), regarding a possible connection between 煤 (susu, “soot”) and 炭 (sumi, “cinder; charcoal”)

煤 (eumhun 그을음 매 (geueureum mae))

1. hanja form^? of 매 (“soot”)

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

• Kun: しーし (shīshi, 煤)

Cognate with Japanese 煤 (susu).

• (Shuri-Naha) しーし [shìíshí] (Heiban - [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɕiːɕi]

煤(しーし) (shīshi) 

1. soot (fine particles of amorphous carbon and tar)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

煤 (susu) (kana すす)

1. soot (fine particles of amorphous carbon and tar)
   • 711–712, Kojiki, Kuni-yuzuri:

     ...登陀流天之新巢之凝烟_{訓凝姻云州須}之八拳垂摩弖燒擧_{麻弖二字以音}

     ...in Takama-nö-para the soot (凝姻 is read as susu) hangs down eight hands long (the two characters 摩弖 are pronounced made).^[1]

• 煤す (susu, “to be stained with soot”)

• Japanese: 煤 (susu)

煤: Hán Nôm readings: môi, muồi, mai

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(Jinmeiyō kanji)

• Kun: ちち (chichi, 煤)

Cognate with Japanese 煤 (susu).

• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕit͡ɕi]

煤(ちち) (chichi) 

1. soot (fine particles of amorphous carbon and tar)