龈炎
yín​yán

gingivitis

龈 kěn, yín, qiǎn gums Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 齿 represents the meaning and 艮 represents the sound. Simplified form of 齦.

Components

齿
齿 Meaning component
chǐ teeth
艮
艮 Sound component
gěn, gèn, hén blunt

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

炎 yán flame

Combination of two fires (火).

Components

火
火 Iconic component
huǒ fire
火
火 Iconic component
huǒ fire

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (3 of 12 verified)

谈淡毯痰氮琰郯啖锬剡談赕

Meaning (0 of 3 verified)

琰欻燅

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthjem[ɢ]ʷ(r)am burn, blazing

說文解字

《說文》：“炎，火光上也。从重火。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

齦 gums Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 齒 represents the meaning and 艮 represents the sound.

Components

齒
齒 Meaning component
chǐ teeth
艮
艮 Sound component
gěn, gèn, hén blunt

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰrɯːnʔ
kʰɯːnʔ
ŋɯn

說文解字

齧也。从齒𥃩聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)