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  • 膀胱 【ボウコウ】 urinary bladder
  • 膀胱炎 【ボウコウエン】 cystitis, inflammation of the bladder

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bang3, pang1, pang2
Korean:
bang

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3808 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
29748 Morohashi
4859 New Nelson (John Haig)
4b10.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-10 SKIP code
7022.7 Four corner code
1-71-15 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8180 Unicode hex code

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  • 膀胱 【ボウコウ】 urinary bladder
  • 人工膀胱 【ジンコウボウコウ】 artificial bladder, artificial urinary bladder

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
guang1
Korean:
gwang

Spanish

  • vejiga

Portuguese

French

3755 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
29432 Morohashi
4796 New Nelson (John Haig)
2457 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2530 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4b6.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-6 SKIP code
7921.1 Four corner code
1-70-89 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
80f1 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:
inflammation, flame, blaze
Kun:
ほのお
On:
エン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1242 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 炎 【エン】 -itis (indicating an inflammatory disease)
  • 炎症 【エンショウ】 inflammation, irritation
  • 脳炎 【ノウエン】 brain inflammation, encephalitis, cerebritis
  • 胃炎 【イエン】 gastritis, gastric catarrh

Kun reading compounds

  • 炎 【ほのお】 flame, blaze, flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger), passion
  • 炎検出器 【ほのおけんしゅつき】 flame detector
  • 瞋恚の炎 【しんいのほのお】 intense antipathy (like a blazing fire), flames of rage
  • 嫉妬の炎 【しっとのほのお】 flames of jealousy

Readings

Japanese names:
ぬく
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yan2
Korean:
yeom

Spanish

  • quemar
  • llamarada
  • inflamación
  • flama

Portuguese

  • inflamação
  • chama
  • fogo

French

  • inflammation
  • flamme
  • incendie
1024 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1231 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2751 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1727 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1513 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
697 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1336 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1419 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1803 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1264 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3075 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1568 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2145 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
164 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18910 Morohashi
2420 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3404 New Nelson (John Haig)
162 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
174 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1207 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1162 2001 Kanji
4d4.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-4 SKIP code
9080.9 Four corner code
1-17-74 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
708e Unicode hex code