燃

燃 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火月大火 (FBKF), four-corner 9383₃, composition ⿰火然)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 682, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19394
• Dae Jaweon: page 1094, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2235, character 11
• Unihan data for U+71C3

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *njen): semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 然 (OC *njen) – burn with fire. Originally 然 (OC *njen), but because it was phonetically borrowed for abstract senses, 火 (huǒ) was added for differentiation.

Probably Sino-Tibetan; compare Jingpho nan (“to light”), shanan (“torch”) (Schuessler, 2007).

燃

1. to burn; to be alight
2. to ignite; to light
3. to spark off (hopes); to start (debate); to raise (hopes)
4. (neologism, slang) lit; awesome; cool; uplifting
5. (neologism, slang) pumped up; hyper; stoked

• (to burn): 焚燒／焚烧 (fénshāo)
• (to ignite):

燃

1. (Hokkien, Teochew, Hainanese) to burn (wood, coal, etc.)
2. (Hokkien, Teochew) to heat up; to boil (a liquid)

   燃水   ―  hiâⁿ-chúi   ―  to heat up water; to boil water

• “燃”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 李如龙 , 刘福铸 , 吴华英 , 黄国城 (2019) “燃”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 215.

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. Burn, blaze, glow

• Go-on: ねん (nen, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ぜん (zen)
• Kun: もえる (moeru, 燃える, Jōyō)^{←もゆ (moyu, 燃ゆ, historical)}、もす (mosu, 燃す, Jōyō)、もやす (moyasu, 燃やす, Jōyō)

燃 (eumhun 탈 연 (tal yeon))

1. hanja form^? of 연 (“burn, light fire, ignite”)

燃: Hán Nôm readings: nhiên, nhen

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