Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

炎: inflammation, flame

Also: blaze

JLPT N18 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

火 carries the meaning

8 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

エンen · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 肺炎はいえんpneumonia
  • 肝炎かんえんhepatitis
  • 炎上えんじょうgoing up in flames
  • 炎症えんしょうinflammation; irritation
  • 炎天えんてんblazing heat; scorching sun
  • 火炎瓶かえんびんMolotov cocktail; petrol bomb; gasoline bomb

ほのおhonoo · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 炎ほのおflame; blaze

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Ideogrammic compound (會意)火 fire + 火 fire

Vertical duplication of 火 (“fire”).

Source: Wiktionary, 炎 (rev. 92161935), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Fire + fire stacked = intense flames”
From the 火 fire story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
火

Also built on fire (火)

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炎 gives its sound to

The family reading is タン (tan). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read エン

23 kanji share this on'yomiAll 23
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yán

Same form: 炎 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
炎 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
炎 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin yán most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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