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Kanji Detail for 炎 - "flame, to burn, burning hot"

炎

  • Meaning

    炎 means "flame, to burn, burning hot."

    1. Flame - Fire.

    2. To burn - To blaze up.

    3. Burning hot - As hot as fire; scorching.

    4. Inflammation - A disease causing heat, pain, or swelling.

  • Words using 炎

    • 肺炎 はいえん Listen pneumonia
    • 肝炎 かんえん Listen hepatitis
    • 炎上 えんじょう Listen going up in flames; destruction by fire (esp. of a large building); stirring up a storm of criticism online (of an article, tweet, statement, etc.)
    • 火炎瓶 かえんびん Listen Molotov cocktail; petrol bomb; gasoline bomb
    • 炎症 えんしょう Listen inflammation; irritation
    • 炎天 えんてん Listen blazing heat; scorching sun

  • Four-character idioms with 炎

    • 気炎万丈 きえんばんじょう Listen in high spirits; talking big

  • Tattoo check: 炎

    • Verified meaning: flame, to burn, burning hot
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read えん, ほの, ほのう, ほのお)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 炎

    Given names 炎(えん)Listen 炎(ほの)Listen 炎(ほのお)Listen 炎(ほむら)Listen

    Surnames 炎(ほのう)Listen

  • Compare with other kanji that mean the same thing:

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    inflammation; flame; blaze

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    flame, blaze; hot

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    flame; inflammation; -itis

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    flame, blaze; hot

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Fire that emits light and rises upward. Hence intense fire is called 炎火. | Hot. Hence midsummer is called 炎夏. Extreme heat is called 炎威 (fiery might). | 炎徼. The southern borderlands. In the Five Elements directional system, fire belongs to the south, hence this name. | Prosperous appearance. 大言炎炎 appears in (Zhuangzi). Commonly read like the base character.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    en(エン) エン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    honoo(ほのお) ほのお

  • Strokes

    tip

    8 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    火 灬 (hi・hihen・rekka・renga)

  • Related Keywords

    flame to burn burning hot disease inflammation blaze inferno combust ember fire flare flicker heat ignite kindle scorch torch

Sentences including 炎

  • The house was in flames.

  • The ship went up in flames.

  • My house was on fire.

  • I'm afraid i have an inflammation in my eyes.

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