Chinese symbol for “inflammatory”
炎性
yán xìng
inflammatory (medicine)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for inflammatory is 炎性 (yán xìng), defined as: inflammatory (medicine).
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 炎性.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 肺炎 | fèi yán | pneumonia; inflammation of the lungs |
| 炎热 (炎熱) | yán rè | blistering hot; sizzling hot (weather) |
| 肝炎 | gān yán | hepatitis |
| 发炎 (發炎) | fā yán | to become inflamed; inflammation |
| 炎症 | yán zhèng | inflammation |
| 关节炎 (關節炎) | guān jié yán | arthritis |
| 女性 | nǚ xìng | woman; the female sex |
| 男性 | nán xìng | the male sex; a male |
See also: Japanese symbol for “inflammatory”.
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.