Translingual

Han character

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

1. flame

References

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

Chinese

Glyph origin

Pronunciation

Definitions

焰

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Compounds

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)
• (Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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

Readings

• Goon: えん (en)
• Kan’on: えん (en)
• Kun: ほのお (honō)

Compounds

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) ほ​のお [hóꜜnòò] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1][2]
• (Tokyo) ほの​お [hònóꜜò] (Nakadaka - [2])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [hõ̞no̞ː]

Alternative forms

• 炎

Noun

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

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

     燄 保乃保

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

焰 • ‎(yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune-Reischauer yŏn, Yale yen)

1. flame
2. blaze
3. glowing

Vietnamese

Han character

焰 (diễm, diêm, dim)

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