焰

See also: 焔 and 燄

焰	U+7130, 焰 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7130

← 焯
[U+712F]

CJK Unified Ideographs

焱 →
[U+7131]

Translingual

Han character

焰 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 火弓竹難 (FNHX), four-corner 9787₇, composition ⿰火臽)

Derived characters

𡓢

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 675, character 4
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19141
Dae Jaweon: page 1086, character 15
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2210, character 7
Unihan data for U+7130

Chinese

trad.		焰/燄
simp.		焰
alternative forms		焔熖爓／𰟘

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (臽) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
萏	*l'oːmʔ
窞	*l'oːmʔ
惂	*kʰloːmʔ
輡	*kʰloːmʔ
錎	kʰloːmʔ, ɡroːms
埳	*kʰloːmʔ
臽	kʰloːmʔ, ɡroːms
淊	ɡloːmʔ, qroːm, qroːms, lomʔ
欿	*ɡloːmʔ
蜭	ɡloːmʔ, ɡluːms
啗	l'aːmʔ, l'aːms
鵮	ʔr'oːm, kʰroːm, *kʰroːms
餡	*ɡroːms
陷	*ɡroːms
爓	ljom, loms
諂	*l̥ʰomʔ
讇	*l̥ʰomʔ
閻	*lom
焰	*loms
壛	*lom
櫩	*lom
燄	*lomʔ
掐	*kʰroːb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *loms) : phonetic 臽 (OC *kʰloːmʔ, *ɡroːms) + semantic 火 (“fire”)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yàn (yan⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jim⁶ / jim⁴
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ieng⁵
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iām / iāⁿ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yàn
  - Wade–Giles: yen⁴
  - Yale: yàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yann
  - Palladius: янь (janʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: jim⁶ / jim⁴
  - Yale: yihm / yìhm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jim⁶ / jim⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: yim⁶ / yim⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːm²²/, /jiːm²¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ieng⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /iɛŋ²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iām
  - Tâi-lô: iām
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iam
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /iam²²/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /iam³³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /iam⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iāⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: iānn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: via
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /iã⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /iã²²/

Note:

iāⁿ - vernacular;
iām - literary.

Middle Chinese: yemH

Rime
Character	焰
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	鹽 (153)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以贍切
Baxter	yemH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇm^H/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛm^H/
Shao Rongfen	/jæm^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiam^H/
Li Rong	/iɛm^H/
Wang Li	/jĭɛm^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯ɛm^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jim⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*loms/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	焰
Reading #	1/1
No.	13566
Phonetic component	臽
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	豔
Old Chinese	/*loms/
Notes	燄轉註分化字

Definitions

焰

flame

Compounds

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02415
“焰”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	焔
Kyūjitai	焰

Kanji

焰

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 焔)

Readings

Go-on: えん (en)^{←えん (en, historical)}^{←えむ (emu, ancient)}
Kan-on: えん (en)^{←えん (en, historical)}^{←えむ (emu, ancient)}
Kun: ほのお (honoo, 焰)^{←ほのほ (fonofo, 焰, historical)}、ほむら (homura, 焰)
Nanori: ほのお (honoo)

Compounds

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

焰

Wikipedia ^ja

Etymology

For pronunciation and definitions of 焰 – see the following entry.

【炎】S	[kanji] jōyō kanji Kanji reading: えん, ほの.お, ほむら, もえる

(This term, 焰, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

【炎ほのお】S	[noun] a flame [noun] (figuratively) an intense emotion, passion Alternative spellings 焔, 燄
【炎ほむら】S	[noun] a flame [noun] (figuratively) an intense emotion, passion Alternative spellings 焔, 燄
【炎えん】S	[affix] flame, blaze [affix] (figurative) passion, emotion Alternative spellings 焔, 燄

(This term, 焰, is the kyūjitai of an alternative spelling (焔) of the above term.)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 焰 (MC yemH). Recorded as Middle Korean 燄/염〯 (yěm) (Yale: yem) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

焰

Wikisource

焰 (eumhun 불꽃 염 (bulkkot yeom))

hanja form^? of 염 (“flame; blaze; glowing”)

Compounds

세염 (勢焰, seyeom)
염초 (焰硝, yeomcho)
기염 (氣焰, giyeom)
홍염 (紅焰, hong'yeom)
기염 (氣焰, giyeom, “bluster”)
화색 (焰色, hwasaek, “flame colour”)
화염 (火焰, hwayeom, “flame”)
화염병 (火焰甁, hwayeombyeong, “Molotov cocktail”)

References

국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

Han character

焰: Hán Nôm readings: diệm, diễm, diêm, dim

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