HSK 6 · Nature

火焰 huǒyàn “flame” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 火焰 means

  1. flame
  2. blaze

How to say 火焰

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale火huǒ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale焰yàn4th tone, falling

火焰 in a sentence

  1. 用本生灯加热钾，火焰就会呈现淡紫色。

    Yòng Běnshēngdēng jiārè jiǎ, huǒyàn jiù huì chéngxiàn dàn zǐsè.

    Potassium, heated with a Bunsen burner, gives the flame a lilac colour.

    Sentence #13543146 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 火焰 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 火 (huǒ) with each of its parts in a different colour
火huǒfire
  • 丷eight form of 八 · bā
  • 人person · rén

Memory aidDrawn from rising flames.

The character 焰 (yàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
焰yànflame
  • 火fire · huǒMeaning part
  • 臽pit · xiànSound part

火 hints at the meaning (fire); 臽 (xiàn) hints at the sound. Compare it with yàn.

How to write 火焰

火 4 strokes · 焰 12 strokes

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火焰 (huǒyàn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 火焰 (huǒyàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 火焰

Words with 火

火车huǒchē · train火车站huǒchēzhàn · train station火huǒ · fire着火zháohuǒ · to catch fire火柴huǒchái · match (for lighting fire)恼火nǎohuǒ · annoyed火箭huǒjiàn · rocket火药huǒyào · gunpowder涮火锅shuànhuǒguō · to eat hotpot

More words: Nature & Environment

化肥huàféi · chemical fertiliser花蕾huālěi · flower bud化石huàshí · fossil回收huíshōu · to recycle湖泊húpō · lake呼啸hūxiào · to whistle茎jīng · stem开采kāicǎi · to mine

FAQs

火焰 (huǒyàn) means “flame” or “blaze”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it huǒyàn: huǒ with a 3rd tone, then yàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 火焰 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huoyan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 火焰 from the suggestions. Typing huoyan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
火焰 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.