炎
Meanings
CC-CEDICT
- 1.flame
- 2.inflammation
- 3.-itis
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Wiktionary
- 1.flame; blaze; rising flame
- 2.to burn; to blaze
- 3.blazing; burning hot; scorching
- 4.red; bright red
- 5.power and influence
- 6.inflammation
- 7.Yan Emperor (ancient legendary Chinese ruler)
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Etymology
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).
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Stroke order
Components
炎火
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
今天下午非常炎熱。
It was very hot this afternoon.
我不在乎炎熱的天氣。
I don't mind hot weather.
炎熱潮濕的天氣使我們變得懶散。
Hot and humid weather makes us lazy.
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Derived terms
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