炎

See also: 焱

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 火 + 火 (“fire”)

Han character

炎 (radical 86 火+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 火火 (FF), four-corner 9080₉, composition ⿱火火)

1. flame, blaze
2. hot

References

• KangXi: page 667, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18910
• Dae Jaweon: page 1076, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2193, character 6
• Unihan data for U+708E

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		炎

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yán (yan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jim⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yán
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˊ
    • Wade-Giles: yen²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yan
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jim⁴
    • Yale: yìhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jim⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /jiːm²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (炎, reconstructed)
Character (炎), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 云 (35) Final: 鹽 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 于廉切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦiᴇm/	/i̯ɛm/	/ɣiɛm/	/ɦiɛm/	/ɦiam/	/ɣĭɛm/	/ɣjæm/

Old Chinese pronunciation (炎, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
炎								yán								‹ hjem ›								/*[ɢ]ʷ(r)am/								burn, blazing
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
炎					14315					炎					談					1					炎					/*ɦlam/

Definitions

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Compounds

• 炎帝
• 炎旱
• 炎黄
• 炎凉
• 炎涼世態
• 炎热、炎熱
• 炎日
• 炎暑
• 炎天
• 炎夏
• 炎炎
• 炎焰
• 炎阳
• 炎症

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Japanese

Kanji

炎

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: えん (en)
• Kan’on: えん (en)
• On (unclassified): たん (tan)
• Kun: ほのお (honō), もえる (moeru)

Compounds

• 炎暑 (えんしょ, ensho)
• 炎症 (えんしょう, enshō)
• 炎上 (えんじょう, enjō)
• 炎帝 (えんてい, entei)
• 炎天 (えんてん, enten)
• 炎涼 (えんりょう, enryō)
• 火炎 (かえん, kaen)
• 虫垂炎 (ちゅうすいえん, chūsuien)
• 気炎 (きえん, kien)

Alternative forms

• 焰

Etymology

ponopo > ɸonoɸo > ɸonowo > honoo > honoː. A compound of ho (“fire”) + no (“genitive”) + ho (“ear, head”).

Noun

炎 (hiragana ほのお, romaji honō, historical hiragana ほのほ)

1. flame; blaze
   • 1079, Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi (page 5 (front))

     燄 保乃保

Suffix

炎 (hiragana えん, romaji -en)

1. (medicine) -itis, an inflammation

References

• 1979 [1079], Hiroshi Tsukishima, Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 12: Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin, ISBN 4-7629-3099-7:

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Korean

Hanja

炎 (yeom) (hangeul 염, revised yeom, McCune-Reischauer yŏm, Yale yem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

炎 (viêm, văn)

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