燃 — Chinese character
燃
rán
to ignite, to burn; combustion
- Pinyin
- rán
- Radical
- 86 ⽕ (Fire)
- Strokes
- 16
- Components
- 火 然
- Formation
- pictophonetic — fire; meaning component 火; sound component 然
- Japanese
- 燃 as a kanji
Common words with 燃
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 燃料 | rán liào | fuel |
| 燃烧 (燃燒) | rán shāo | to ignite; to combust |
| 点燃 (點燃) | diǎn rán | to ignite; to set on fire |
| 燃气 (燃氣) | rán qì | fuel gas (coal gas, natural gas, methane etc) |
| 燃油 | rán yóu | fuel oil |
| 燃起 | rán qǐ | to ignite; to light |
| 燃煤 | rán méi | coal fuel |
| 内燃机 (內燃機) | nèi rán jī | internal combustion engine |
| 核燃料 | hé rán liào | nuclear fuel |
| 自燃 | zì rán | spontaneous combustion |
| 死灰复燃 (死灰復燃) | sǐ huī fù rán | lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence; sth malevolent returns to haunt one |
| 引燃 | yǐn rán | to ignite; to start (a fire) |
English words written with 燃
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.