焰 yàn
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yàn
noun
flame; blaze
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 火焰 (Guoyu '焰' n 1; Unihan '焰') -
yàn
noun
power; influence
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: By analogy with a physical flame (Guoyu '焰' n 2)
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- 放焰口 to feed the starving ghosts
- 火焰崇拜 fire worship
- 气焰熏天(氣焰熏天) arrogance permeating the heavens
- 众人拾柴火焰高(眾人拾柴火焰高) when everybody gathers fuel, the flames are higher; the more people, the more strength
- 口吐毒焰 a mouth spitting with poisonous flames; to speak angrily to sb
- 萤焰(螢焰) light of firefly; firefly
- 嚣张气焰(囂張氣焰) overweening attitude; threatening manner
- 烈焰 raging flames
- 火焰 blaze; fire
- 火焰纹(火燄紋) a flame pattern
- 气焰(氣焰) arrogance
- 火焰喷射器(火焰噴射器) flamethrower
- 果焰糕点(果焰糕點) fruit tart
- 焰火 fireworks
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- 卷七十八 志第二十八: 輿服一 Volume 78 Treatises 31: Carriages and Clothes 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 11
- 第三十五回 Chapter 35 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 8
- 第七十一回 Chapter 71 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 4
- 卷二十二 志第二: 禮儀二 Volume 22 Treatises 2: Rites 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 4
- 第八十七回 Chapter 87 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 3
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- 第十六回 Chapter 16 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
- 卷五十一 志第三下: 五行二 Volume 51 Treatises 4: Five Elements 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 3
- 第六十一回 Chapter 61 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 3
- 第九十六回 Chapter 96 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 3
Collocations
- 烟焰 (煙焰) 煙焰已交 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷八十八 列傳第五十八 孝友 Volume 88 Biographies 58: Filial Piety — count: 37
- 势焰 (勢焰) 赫然勢焰可炙 — New Book of Tang 新唐書, 卷一百六十七 列傳第九十二 白裴崔韋二李皇甫王 Volume 167 Biographies 92: Bai, Pei, Cui, Wei, two Li's, Huang, Fu, Wang — count: 19
- 圈焰 (圈焰) 金圈焰銅照八 — History of Yuan 元史, 卷七十八 志第二十八: 輿服一 Volume 78 Treatises 31: Carriages and Clothes 1 — count: 11
- 声焰 (聲焰) 恩寵聲焰震天下 — New Book of Tang 新唐書, 卷七十六 列傳第一 后妃上 Volume 76 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 — count: 10
- 光焰 (光焰) 光焰照天 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷一百〇七 載記第七 石季龍(石虎)下 Volume 107 Records 7: Shi Jilong Part Two — count: 10
- 焰涨 (焰漲) 煙焰漲天 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷71 裴叔業 夏侯道遷 李元護 席法友 王世弼 江悦之 淳于誕 李苗 Volume 71: Pei Shuye, Xiahou Daoqian, Li Yuanhu, Xi Fayou, Wang Shibi, Jiang Yuezhi, Chun Yudan, Li Miao — count: 8
- 焰熏 (焰熏) 抃之徒勢焰熏灼 — History of Song 宋史, 卷四百二十九 列傳第一百八十八 道學三 朱熹 張栻 Volume 429 Biographies 188: Taoist Scholars 3 - Zhu Xi, Zhang Shi — count: 6
- 焰亙 (焰亙) 焰亙九重 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷二十上 本紀第二十上: 昭宗 Volume 20 Annals 20: Zhaozong — count: 6
- 虐焰 (虐焰) 內挫虐焰 — New Book of Tang 新唐書, 卷一百一十三 列傳第三十八 唐張徐 Volume 113 Biographies 38: Tang, Zhang, Xu — count: 6
- 焰焰 (焰焰) 無若火始焰焰 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 洛誥 Zhou Shu - Announcement concerning Luo — count: 6