FIRE    火

HOT LIGHT which APPEARS ABOVE what BURNS.
BLAZECONFLAGRATIONINFERNOFLAMESBURNINGCOMBUSTIONFOREST FIREWILDFIREBRUSH FIRE
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for fire is huǒ 火. 2. Yán 炎 refers specifically to the flame.
Modern Chinese Criteria
火 炎焰 火焰 火苗 火頭 火舌 火柱 火花 燈花 焰 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • BEACON　FIRE USED AS a SIGNAL. (anc: 6/0, child: 0)
Hypernym
  • LIGHT　FEATURE which CAUSES THINGS TO BECOME VISIBLE AND LACKING which they are NOT VISIBLE. (anc: 4/0, child: 1)
  • FEATURE　ABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE. (anc: 3/0, child: 19)
  • OBJECT　[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to. (anc: 2/0, child: 6)
  • Novyj objasnitel'nyj Slovar' Sinonimov Russkogo Jazyka ( APRESJAN 2004) p. 693

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 1.81

  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 1966) p. 210

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  • Semantica del Griego Antiguo ( HERNANDEZ 2000) p. 60n259

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 2.982

  • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 670

    炎，燄，焰，爓

    1. 焰 is the vulgar form of ya4n 爓.

    2. Only ya2n 炎 has a few usages where the word seems to refer to a flame.

    • Words (13 items)

    火  huǒ OC: qphaalʔ MC: hʷɑ 40 Attributions

    The standard word for fire is huǒ 火.

      Word relations
    • Object: 救/RESCUE The current general word for rescuing someone is jiù 救.

      Syntactic words
    • nabprocessfire
    • nadNfiery
    • nadNrelated to fireLZ
    • nadVin the fire [fire-like; (cooked) with fire]; with fire
    • nadVanalogylike fire> as fast as fire spreading
    • nadVinstrumentusing fire 火攻
    • nmfire
    • nmfigurative"fire"
    炎  yán OC: ɢlam MC: ɦiɛm 10 Attributions

    Yán 炎 refers specifically to the flame.

      Syntactic words
    • nflame, fire
    • vadNblazing, flaming
    失火  shī huǒ OC: lʰiɡ qphaalʔ MC: ɕit hʷɑ 4 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPabeventan outbreak of fire
    • VPicatch fire
    • VPi0there was/is a fire
    火焰  huǒ yàn OC: qphaalʔ k-loms MC: hʷɑ jiɛm 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPmthe flames; fire
    災火  zāi huǒ OC: tsɯɯ qphaalʔ MC: tsəi hʷɑ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPadVby disastrous fire; through disastrous fire
    火車  huǒ chē OC: qphaalʔ khlja MC: hʷɑ tɕhɣɛ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPBUDDH: fire vehicle (torture instrument)
    爟火  guàn huǒ MC: kwanH xwaX OC: koons qphaalʔ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPsacrificial fireCH
    光  guāng OC: kʷaaŋ MC: kɑŋ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nglow of fire
    熛  biāo OC: pew MC: piɛu 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nleaping flames
    • nadVanalogylike a leaping flame
    爟  guàn MC: kwanH OC: koons 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nsacrificial fireCH
    火坑  huǒ kēng OC: qphaalʔ khraaŋ MC: hʷɑ khɣaŋ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPfireplace in a whole in the ground
    煇  huī OC: qhul MC: hɨi 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nflame
    煬  yàng OC: k-laŋs MC: ji̯ɐŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nfire