熵

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熵 U+71B5, 熵
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-71B5
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 熶 →

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
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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

Definitions

熵

  1. (physics, information theory, etc.) entropy

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