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Keyword
intense flame
  • inflammation
  • flame
  • blaze
Frequency
#1242
Strokes
8
Grade
8
JLPT (old)
N1
Heisig
174
Readings
エン89%
ほのお11%
Mnemonic
Stack one fire on top of another and the flames leap twice as high, roaring, crackling, and glowing: an intense flame.
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Used in kanji
Used in vocabulary
炎ほのお
flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion
Noun
肺はい炎えん
pneumonia
Noun
炎えん上じょう
going up in flames; destruction by fire (esp. of a large building)
Noun
肝かん炎えん
hepatitis
Noun
炎えん症しょう
inflammation; irritation
Noun
火か炎えん瓶びん
Molotov cocktail; petrol bomb; gasoline bomb
Noun
火か炎えん
flame; blaze
Noun
炎えん
-itis (indicating an inflammatory disease)
Suffix
炎えん天てん
blazing heat; scorching sun
Noun
口こう内ない炎えん
mouth ulcer; stomatitis
Noun
腎じん炎えん
nephritis; inflammation of the kidneys
Noun
陽炎かげろう
heat shimmer; heat haze; shimmering of hot air
Noun
陽炎かげろい
heat shimmer; heat haze; shimmering of hot air; glow of dawn; gleam of daybreak
Noun
炎えん天てん下か
under the blazing sun; in sweltering heat
Noun
鼻び炎えん
rhinitis; coryza; nasal inflammation
Noun
中ちゅう耳じ炎えん
otitis media; middle-ear infection
Noun
胃い炎えん
gastritis; gastric catarrh
Noun
腱けん鞘しょう炎えん
tenosynovitis; tendonitis; tendinitis
Noun
脳のう炎えん
brain inflammation; encephalitis; cerebritis
Noun