Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

燃: burn, blaze

Also: glow

JLPT N216 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met

火 carries the meaning · 然 gives the sound

16 strokes

Four readings, and the words that use each

ネンnen · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 燃料ねんりょうfuel
  • 燃費ねんぴfuel, consumption, gas mileage
  • 可燃性かねんせいcombustibility, flammability
  • 不燃性ふねんせいnon-inflammability
  • 燃焼するねんしょうするburn, combust
  • 再燃するさいねんするresuscitate, revive, recur

もえるmoeru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 燃えるもえるburn [v.i.]

もやすmoyasu · kun'yomi

  • 燃やすもやすburn [v.t.]

もすmosu · kun'yomi

  • 燃すもすburn [v.t.]

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)火 fire (meaning) + 然 (sound)

Burn with fire. Originally 然, but because it was phonetically borrowed for abstract senses, 火 was added for differentiation.

Source: Wiktionary, 燃 (rev. 90711633), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Fire (火) + natural/as it is (然). To apply "fire" to something that is already in its natural state of being ready to catch light—to ignite and blaze up.”
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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Also read ネン

8 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · rán

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

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

Pinyin rán 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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