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Kanji Detail for 炎 - "flame, fire, blaze"
炎
- Meaning
炎 means "flame, fire, blaze."
Flame - Fire.
To burn - To blaze up.
Burning hot - As hot as fire; scorching.
Inflammation - A disease causing heat, pain, or swelling.
- 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.
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