焰

See also: 焔 and 燄

Translingual

Han character

焰 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 火弓竹難 (FNHX), four-corner 9787₇, composition ⿰火臽)

Derived characters

• 𡓢

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 675, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19141
• Dae Jaweon: page 1086, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2210, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7130

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Chinese

trad.		焰/燄
simp.		焰
alternative forms		焔 熖

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (臽) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
萏	*l'oːmʔ
窞	*l'oːmʔ
惂	*kʰloːmʔ
輡	*kʰloːmʔ
錎	*kʰloːmʔ, *ɡroːms
埳	*kʰloːmʔ
臽	*kʰloːmʔ, *ɡroːms
淊	*ɡloːmʔ, *qroːm, *qroːms, *lomʔ
欿	*ɡloːmʔ
蜭	*ɡloːmʔ, *ɡluːms
啗	*l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
鵮	*ʔr'oːm, *kʰroːm, *kʰroːms
餡	*ɡroːms
陷	*ɡroːms
爓	*ljom, *loms
諂	*l̥ʰomʔ
讇	*l̥ʰomʔ
閻	*lom
焰	*loms
壛	*lom
櫩	*lom
燄	*lomʔ
掐	*kʰroːb

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yàn (yan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jim⁶ / jim⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iām / iāⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yàn
    • Wade–Giles: yen⁴
    • Yale: yàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yann
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jim⁶ / jim⁴
    • Yale: yihm / yìhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jim⁶ / jim⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yim⁶ / yim⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːm²²/, /jiːm²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iām
    • Tâi-lô: iām
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iam
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /iam²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /iam³³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iam⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iāⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: iānn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: via
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iã⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /iã²²/

Note:

• iām - literary;
• iāⁿ - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: yemH

Rime
Character	焰
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	鹽 (153)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以贍切
Baxter	yemH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇmH/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛmH/
Shao Rongfen	/jæmH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiamH/
Li Rong	/iɛmH/
Wang Li	/jĭɛmH/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ɛmH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jim6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*loms/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	焰
Reading #	1/1
No.	13566
Phonetic component	臽
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	豔
Old Chinese	/*loms/
Notes	燄轉註分化字

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 焰

1. flame

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02415
• “焰”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

焰

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 焔)

1. flame
2. blaze
3. glowing
4. blazing

Readings

• Go-on: えん (en)^{←えん (en, historical)←えむ (emu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: えん (en)^{←えん (en, historical)←えむ (emu, ancient)}
• Kun: ほのお (honō, 焰)^{←ほのほ (fonofo, 焰, historical)}

Compounds

• 焰色(えんしょく) (enshoku): flame colour
• 火焰(かえん) (kaen)
• 気焰(きえん) (kien)

Kanji in this term
焰
ほのお Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Etymology

ponopo > ɸonoɸo > ɸonowo > honoo > honoː. Compound of 火 (ho, “fire”) +‎ の (no, “possessive particle”) +‎ 穂 (ho, “ear, head”).

Alternative forms

• 炎

Noun

焰(ほのお) • (honō) ^{←ほのほ (fonofo)?}

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

     燄 保乃保

References

• Tsukishima, Hiroshi (1079) Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 12: Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin, published 1979, →ISBN.

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Korean

Hanja

焰 • (yeom) (hangeul 염, revised yeon, McCune–Reischauer yŏm, Yale yem)

1. flame
2. blaze
3. glowing

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 焰 (diễm, diêm, dim)

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