Illustration: A detached wooden storage shed behind a Japanese repair workshop is engulfed in fire. Flames climb the walls, pour through the doorway, and break through part of the roof while heavy smoke rises above it.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

炎えん上じょう

enjou

to go up in flames

Example sentences

彼かれは幸運こううんにも炎上えんじょうしているビルから救出きゅうしゅつされた。
He had the good fortune to be rescued from the burning building.
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家いえは炎上えんじょうしていた。
The house was in flames.
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船ふねが炎上えんじょうした。
The ship went up in flames.
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Kanji in 炎上

炎inflammation; flameOnエンKunほのお
上above; upOnジョウ・ショウ・シャンKunうえ・うわ-・かみ

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