炎 (yán): meaning and stroke order
炎 (yán) means flame, inflammation, -itis.
炎
- Simplified
- 炎
- Traditional
- 炎 (same form)
- Pinyin
- yán
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Stroke order of 炎
炎
- yán flame; inflammation
- 8 strokes
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Meaning of 炎
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yán
- flame
- inflammation
- -itis
Radical and structure
- 炎
- Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 8 strokes · 火 on top, 火 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).