Chinese symbol for “scorching”
炎炎
yán yán
scorching
The closest CC-CEDICT match for scorching is 炎炎 (yán yán), defined as: scorching.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “scorching”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 灼热 (灼熱) | zhuó rè | burning hot; scorching |
| 热辣辣 (熱辣辣) | rè là là | burning hot; scorching; (of food) spicy hot |
| 火辣 | huǒ là | painful heat; scorching |
| 烧灼伤 (燒灼傷) | shāo zhuó shāng | burn (injury); scorching |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 炎炎.
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “scorching”.
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.