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- 1.entropy (character created in 1923)
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- 1.entropy
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Etymology
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.
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