The kanji 炎: meaning, readings and stroke order

炎

Meaning: flame, inflammation
On reading: エン en
Kun reading: ほのお honoo
Strokes: 8
Radical: 火 fire
Level: Level 8 · the last years of junior high

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: ngọn lửa, viêm (viêm)
Japanese: ほのお。もえあがる。
Korean: 불꽃, 염증 (담·염)
Chinese: 火焰、炎症

Readings, words and example sentences

エン en · on reading · less common

炎えん上じょう
going up in flames
建物が 炎えん上じょうしました。
The building went up in flames.

ほのお honoo · kun reading

炎ほのお
flame
赤い 炎ほのおが上がります。
Red flames rise up.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.