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Kanji Detail for 焰 - "flame, blaze"

焰

  • Meaning

    焰 means "flame, blaze."

    1. Flame - Fire rising upward; burning blaze.

    2. Blaze - A bright, fierce fire; intense burning.

  • Origin of 焰

    火, fire, beside 臽, which lends the reading en: flame. A variant of 炎 in Japanese use; 火焰 is a blaze.

    How to remember it: Fire 火 at its brightest point — the flame.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: flame, blaze
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names

    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.

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    flame; blaze; glowing; blazing

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    flame, blaze; glowing, blazing

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    flame

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    flame, blaze; glowing, blazing

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

    Light emitted by fire. Originally written as 爓. Commonly also interchangeable with 燄.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    en(エン) エン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    honoo(ほのお) ほのお

  • Strokes

    tip

    12 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    火 灬 (hi・hihen・rekka・renga)

  • Related Keywords

    flame blaze burning bright combustion conflagration ember fierce fire flare flicker furnace glowing heat ignite incendiary inferno kindle light pyre scorch smolder torch

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