U+71B5, 熵
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-71B5

[U+71B4]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+71B6]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 86, +11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火卜金月 (FYCB), four-corner 90827, composition)

References


Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic  (fire) + phonetic  (OC *hljaŋ, quotient)

Coined by Chinese physical scientist Hu Gangfu (胡剛復) in 1923 to translate the concept of entropy in thermodynamics, where (quotient) represents the quotient of heat and temperature, and (fire) represents its relation to thermodynamics.

Pronunciation


Definitions

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