炎

Stroke order

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

• 烾, 㥕, 㷠, 𰟎, 𪹝, 𬫨, 𤎭, 𤎫, 𤎫, 𤐥, 𤑋
• 𠊌, 𡨼, 𤉞, 𤈹, 𢉘, 菼, 扊, 氮, 𭻞, 痰, 䆦, 𦋎, 𪐗, 𠪛, 𤐺, 𤑖, 𤒞, 𤓕
• 倓, 啖, 埮, 婒, 𢃔, 惔, 掞, 淡, 𤟇, 𮥐, 晱, 棪, 𣨬, 毯, 㷋, 𪺯, 琰, 腅, 𤯇, 𤲩, 𤾃, 睒, 𥟢, 裧, 䊏, 緂(𰬧), 䎦, 𦖠, 舕, 𦩗, 䗊
• 𧣹, 談(谈), 賧(赕), 𨁹, 𨌹, 醈, 𨤮, 錟(锬), 燄, 燅, 燚, 颷(𩙪), 餤(𱃿), 𮪋, 𩩧, 𭶟, 𮫣, 𩸥, 𪉧, 𮭽, 𪏋, 𪑓
• 剡, 郯, 𢻑, 敥, 𢽻, 欻, 㲜, 𤊼, 煔, 𭵞, 㷥, 𦧡, 𤌜, 𦫟, 覢(𬊦), 𤏭, 𤐞, 顃(𩖖), 𩗹, 𤐕, 𪂈(𬸖), 𤒳, 𤓧

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 667, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18910
• Dae Jaweon: page 1076, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2193, character 6
• Unihan data for U+708E

Historical forms of the character 炎
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 火 (“fire”) + 火 (“fire”). Vertical duplication of 火 (“fire”).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ljam (“tongue; lick; flame”) (STEDT). Cognate with Chepang लेम्‍ह्‌सा (lemh‑, “to lick”), Burmese အလျှံ (a.hlyam, “flame; iridescence”). Within Chinese, cognate with 焰 (OC *loms, “to flame up”), 舔 (OC *l̥ʰiːmʔ, “to lick”). Compare also Khmer លាម (liəm, “to flare up”) (Schuessler, 2007).

炎

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

• “炎”, 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–

(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on: えん (en, Jōyō)^{←えん (en, historical)←えむ (emu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: えん (en, Jōyō)^{←えん (en, historical)←えむ (emu, ancient)}
• Kun: ほのお (honoo, 炎, Jōyō)^{←ほのほ (fonofo, 炎, historical)}、ほむら (homura, 炎)、もえる (moeru, 炎える)

• 陽炎(かぎろい) (kagiroi), 陽炎(かげろう) (kagerō)

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

炎

Wikipedia ^ja

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Flame

Wikipedia

⟨po no₂ po⟩ → */ponəpo/ → /ɸonoɸo/ → /ɸonowo/ → /honowo/ → /hono.o/

From Old Japanese 炎 (pono₂po).

Compound of 火 (ho, combining form of hi, “fire”) +‎ の (no, possessive particle) +‎ 穂 (ho, “ear, head”).^[1][2][3]

• (Tokyo) ほのお (Atamadaka – )^[3][4][5]
• (Tokyo) ほのお (Nakadaka – )^[4]
• IPA^(key):

炎(ほのお) • (honoo) ^{←ほのほ (fonofo)?}

1. a flame

   ハリー・ポッターと炎(ほのお)のゴブレット

   Harī Pottā to Honoo no Goburetto

   Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

   燃(も)え広(ひろ)がる炎(ほのお)

   Moehirogaru Honoo

   Catching Fire

   • 1079, Konkōmyō Saishōōkyō Ongi, page 5 (front):
     ^[6]

     燄 保乃保

   • 2001 December 22, “真紅眼の黒竜(レッドアイズ・ブラックドラゴン) [Red-Eyes Black Dragon]”, in Premium Pack 5, Konami:

     真(しん)紅(く)の眼(め)を持(も)つ黒(こく)竜(りゅう)。怒(いか)りの黒(くろ)き炎(ほのお)はその眼(め)に映(うつ)る者(もの)全(すべ)てを焼(や)き尽(つ)くす。

     Shinku no me o motsu kokuryū. Ikari no kuroki honoo wa sono me ni utsuru mono subete o yakitsukusu.

     A black dragon with crimson eyes. Its black flames of fury burn away anything that’s reflected in those eyes.

2. (figuratively) an intense emotion, passion

Compound of 火 (ho, “fire”, combining form) +‎ 群 (mura, “gathering, group”).^[2][3]

• (Tokyo) ほむら (Heiban – )^[3][5]
• (Tokyo) ほむら (Atamadaka – )^[3]
• IPA^(key):

炎(ほむら) • (homura) 

1. a flame
2. (figuratively) an intense emotion, passion

• 瞋(しん)恚(い)の炎(ほむら) (shin'i no homura)
• 胸(むね)の炎(ほむら) (mune no homura)

/emʉ/ → /eɴ/

From Middle Chinese 炎 (MC hjem).

• IPA^(key):

炎(えん) • (-en) 

1. (medicine) -itis, inflammation of...

炎(えん) • (en) 

1. flame, blaze
2. burning
3. firehot, red-hot

炎 is a daiyōji replacing 焔.

• IPA^(key):

炎(えん) • (en) 

1. flame, blaze
2. (figurative) passion, emotion

From Middle Chinese 炎 (MC hjem). Recorded as Middle Korean 염 (yem) (Yale: yem) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

炎

Wikisource

炎 (eumhun 불꽃 염 (bulkkot yeom))

1. hanja form^? of 염 (“flame”)
2. hanja form^? of 염 (“(medicine) inflammation”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Compound of 火 (po, combining form of pi₂, “fire”) +‎ の (no₂, possessive particle) +‎ 穗 (po, “ear, head”).^[1][2][3]

炎 (pono₂po) (kana ほのほ)

1. a flame
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū‎, book 13, poem 3344:

     ...螢成髣髴聞而大土乎火穗跡而...

     ...potaru nasu pono₂ka ni ki₁ki₁te opotuti wo pono₂po to₂ pumi₁te...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Japanese: 炎 (honō)

炎: Hán Nôm readings: viêm

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