What 焓 means
It names enthalpy, a thermodynamic state quantity.
A 2021 account traces the earliest located printed use to Liu Xianzhou’s revised 1947 mechanical-engineering glossary, a reference book of technical terms. Liu chose 焓 to replace 总热 (“total heat”) and 热含 (“heat content”), which suggested that every change required heat to enter or leave the system. 热函 is also recorded as an alternate Chinese label.
火 contributes the heat-related meaning to 焓; 含 cues its Mandarin reading, hán, roughly “han” with a rising tone.
A specialist Chinese term in thermodynamics, chemistry, and engineering, not everyday conversation.
It names enthalpy, a thermodynamic quantity, not heat itself.
Who writes 焓
Loading…
Don't confuse it with
1
Related characters
2
Combination ideas
3Questions people ask
1Why does 焓 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
More like this
9
How to type or find 焓
- Also called
- 热函
- Search it as
- 焓 enthalpy · 焓 meaning · 焓变 · 焓值 · 比焓 · 焓 pinyin · 热含 · 总热
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
焓\7113Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.