Readings

Kana: エン、ほのお
Romaji: en, honoo
Kana
Romaji

Name Reading

Kana: ぬく
Romaji: nuku
Kana
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Meanings

inflammation, flame, blaze

Stroke Diagram

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Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  8
Radical Number:  86
Frequency:  1242
Grade:  8
Skip Pattern:  2-4-4
Korean Reading:  yeom
Chinese Reading:  yan2
Unicode:  708e
JIS:  316A

Indexes

Halpern Index: 2420
Nelson Index: 2751
New Nelson Index: 3404
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 4d4.4
Four Corner Index: 9080.9
Guide to Remembering Index: 1024
Gakken Index: 1231
Japanese Names Index: 697
Daikanwanjiten Index: 18910
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 7.0381
Remembering the kanji Index: 162
Kanji Flashcards Index: 1513
Kodansha Compact Index: 1264
Kanji in Context Index: 1803
1999 Kanji Learners Index: 1568
2013 Kanji Learners Index: 2145
French Remembering the Kanji Index: 164
Remembering the Kanji 6th Index: 174
Essential Kanji Index: 1727
Kodansha Kanji Index: 3075
Roo 2001 Kanji Index: 1162
Tuttle Kanji Cards Index: 1207

Words

(ほのお、ほむら)
flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion
炎上 (えんじょう)
blazing up; destruction of a large building by fire; flood of comments to a blog, exceeding what the blog's owner can answer
肺炎 (はいえん)
pneumonia
陽炎 (かげろう、ようえん)
heat haze; shimmer of hot air
鼻炎 (びえん)
nasal inflammation
(えん)
-itis (indicating an inflammatory disease)
火炎 (かえん)
flame; blaze
炎症 (えんしょう)
inflammation; irritation
肝炎 (かんえん)
hepatitis
脳炎 (のうえん)
brain inflammation; encephalitis; nephritis
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