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炎

炎

See also: 焱

Translingual

Han character

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

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 炎
alt. forms 炏

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (炎) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
倓 *l'oːmʔ, *l'aːm, *l'aːms
緂 *l̥ʰaːm, *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam
毯 *l̥ʰaːmʔ
菼 *l̥ʰaːmʔ
裧 *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam, *l̥ʰjams
賧 *l̥ʰaːms
睒 *l̥ʰaːms, *hljamʔ
舕 *l̥ʰaːms
談 *l'aːm
郯 *l'aːm
惔 *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
錟 *l'aːm
淡 *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms, *lamʔ
痰 *l'aːm
餤 *l'aːm
啖 *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
腅 *l'aːms
剡 *ɦljamʔ, *lamʔ
覢 *hljamʔ
掞 *hljams
炎 *ɦlam
琰 *lamʔ
棪 *lamʔ
扊 *lamʔ

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 炎
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 鹽 (154)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 于廉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦˠiᴇm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦᵚiɛm/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣiæm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦjiam/
Li
Rong		 /ɣjɛm/
Wang
Li		 /ɣĭɛm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯ɛm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 炎
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjem ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷ(r)am/
English 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 炎
Reading # 1/1
No. 14315
Phonetic
component		 炎
Rime
group		 談
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 炎
Old
Chinese		 /*ɦlam/

Definitions

炎

  1. †flame; blaze; rising flame
  2. † to burn; to blaze
  3. blazing; burning hot; scorching
  4. red; bright red
  5. (figuratively) power and influence
  6. (TCM) inflammation
  7. (mythology) Yan Emperor (ancient legendary Chinese ruler)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

炎

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
炎
ほのお
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Etymology

ponopo > ɸonoɸo > ɸonowo > honoo > honoː. Compound of 火 ‎(ho, “fire”) +‎ の ‎(no, “possessive particle”) +‎ 穂 ‎(ho, “ear, head”).[1]

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

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

  1. flame
    • 1079, Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi (page 5 (front))
      燄 保乃保

Suffix

炎 ‎(hiragana えん, romaji -en)

  1. (medicine) -itis; inflammation

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
  • Tsukishima, Hiroshi (1079) Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 12: Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Kyūko Shoin, ISBN 978-4-7629-3099-7, published 1979.

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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