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燃

燃

Translingual

Han character

燃 (radical 86 火+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火月大火 (FBKF), four-corner 93833, composition ⿰火然)

References

  • KangXi: page 682, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19394
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1094, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2235, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+71C3

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 燃

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (肰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嘫 *rneːn
然 *njen
肰 *njen
繎 *njon, *njen
燃 *njen
蹨 *njenʔ, *neːnʔ
橪 *njenʔ, *ʔneːn
撚 *neːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *njen) : semantic 火 ‎(“fire”) + phonetic 然 ‎(OC *njen) – burn with fire. Originally 然 (OC *njen), but because it was phonetically borrowed for abstract senses, 火 was added for differentiation.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 燃
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 日 (38)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 如延切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ȵiᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ȵiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȵʑjæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ȵian/
Li
Rong		 /ȵiɛn/
Wang
Li		 /ȵʑĭɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȵʑi̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 rán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 燃
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 rán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ nyen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.na[n]/
English burn

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 燃
Reading # 1/1
No. 10759
Phonetic
component		 肰
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 然
Old
Chinese		 /*njen/
Notes 俗然字，轉註

Definitions

燃

  1. to burn; to be alight
  2. to ignite; to light
  3. to spark off (hopes); to start (debate); to raise (hopes)

Compounds

  • 內燃機／内燃机 (nèiránjī)
  • 助燃
  • 可燃性 (kěránxìng)
  • 可燃物 (kěránwù)
  • 外燃機／外燃机
  • 完全燃燒／完全燃烧
  • 引燃
  • 核子燃料
  • 核燃料 (héránliào)
  • 死灰復燃／死灰复燃
  • 淨化燃煤／净化燃煤
  • 煮豆燃萁
  • 燃放
  • 燃料 (ránliào)
  • 燃料油
  • 燃料礦物／燃料矿物
  • 燃氣輪機／燃气轮机
  • 燃燈佛／燃灯佛
  • 燃燒／燃烧 (ránshāo)
  • 燃燒彈／燃烧弹
  • 燃犀
  • 燃犀溫嶠／燃犀温峤
  • 燃眉
  • 燃眉之急
  • 燃糠照薪
  • 燃糠自照
  • 燃膏繼晷／燃膏继晷
  • 燃臍／燃脐
  • 燃萁煮豆
  • 燃藜
  • 燃點／燃点 (rándiǎn)
  • 自燃 (zìrán)
  • 點燃／点燃 (diǎnrán)

Japanese

Kanji

燃

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. Burn, blaze, glow

Readings

Korean

Hanja

燃 • ‎(yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune-Reischauer yŏn, Yale yen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

燃 (nhiên, nhen)

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