Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N2

948 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 16

Meaning: burn, blaze, glow

Kunyomi: も.える も.やす も.す

Onyomi: ネン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: ひへん

Meaning: fire

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

料(ねんりょう)   fuel

費(ねんぴ)   fuel, consumption, gas mileage

性(かねんせい)   combustibility, flammability

性(ふねんせい)   non-inflammability

焼する(ねんしょうする)   burn, combust

する(さいねんする)   resuscitate, revive, recur

やす(もやす)   burn [v.t.]

える(もえる)   burn [v.i.]

す(もす)   burn [v.t.]

Onyomi Examples

ネンピ fuel consumption, gas mileage

ネンショウ burning, combustion

フネン incombustibility

カネン inflammable, flammable, combustible, burnable

Kunyomi Examples

える もえる to burn, to get fired up

えるゴミ もえるゴミ burnable garbage, burnable waste

やす もやす to burn, to burn with (emotion, feeling), to be fired up

やす もやす to burn, to burn with (emotion, feeling), to be fired up