Illustration: Inside a countryside home, several clearly defined tongues of flame curl upward from a split log behind the closed glass door of a wood stove. Their narrow tips bend and separate above the charred wood.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

炎ほのお

honoo

flame, blaze

Example sentences

  1. 硫黄いおうは青あおい炎ほのおを上あげて燃もえる。

    Sulfur burns with a blue flame.

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  2. 炎ほのおを弱よわくしなさい。

    Turn the flame down low.

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  3. 風かぜが炎ほのおをあおり立たてた。

    The wind fanned the flames.

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Kanji in 炎

  • 炎inflammation; flameOnエンKunほのお

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