炎
炎 — Inflammation
inflammation, flame, blaze
On’yomiエン (en)
Kun’yomiほのお (honoo)
Stroke order (8 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 炎
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 肺炎 | はいえん haien | pneumonia |
| 肝炎 | かんえん kanen | hepatitis |
| 炎 | ほのお honoo | flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger) |
| 炎上 | えんじょう enjou | going up in flames; destruction by fire (esp. of a large building); stirring up a storm of criticism online (of an article, tweet, statement, etc.) |
| 火炎瓶 | かえんびん kaenbin | Molotov cocktail; petrol bomb; gasoline bomb |
| 炎症 | えんしょう enshou | inflammation; irritation |
Study notes
炎 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 8 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1242 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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