炎
yán HSK6

flame

炎 yán
inflammation noun
(bound form) inflammation; infection; often used as a suffix for medical conditions ending in "-itis"
scorching adjectivenoun
(bound form) scorching hot; extremely hot
flame
(bound form) rising flames; fire
power
(bound form) power and influence; often used in the context of fawning over someone in a high position
Yan Emperor
(bound form) refers to 炎帝 yán​dì, a legendary ancient Chinese ruler and mythical sovereign of China

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,324th most common 92.9 per million
Movie subtitles
2,059th most common 17.6 per million appears in 8% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.08 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
23.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+708E

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)