Chinese symbol for “combustion”
燃烧
rán shāo
Traditional: 燃燒
to ignite; to combust; to burn; combustion
The closest CC-CEDICT match for combustion is 燃烧 (rán shāo), defined as: to ignite; to combust; to burn; combustion; flaming.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 燃烧.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 燃料 | rán liào | fuel |
| 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 |
| 烧毁 (燒燬) | shāo huǐ | to destroy (or be destroyed) by fire |
| 发烧 (發燒) | fā shāo | to have a high temperature (from illness); to have a fever; (fig.) to be fascinated with; to obsess over |
| 焚烧 (焚燒) | fén shāo | to burn; to set on fire |
See also: Japanese symbol for “combustion”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.