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March 2014

炎: flame

By Chinese Word, Japanese Word, Language-Learning
 

炎 yán

noun
: flame; blaze; hot
: inflammation
: -itis (indicating an inflammatory disease)

Kun Reading

炎 | ほのお honoo

noun
: flame; blaze

炎 | ほむら homura

noun
: flame; blaze

On Reading

炎 | えん en

suffix
: -itis (indicating an inflammatory disease)

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soil

土: soil

By Chinese Word, Japanese Word, Language-Learning
 

土 tǔ

noun | radical 32
: earth; dust; clay
: local; indigenous
: crude opium
: unsophisticated
: one of the eight ancient musical instruments 八音 ba1yin made of eight different materials (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹)

Kun Reading

土 | つち tsuchi

noun
: earth; soil; dirt
: the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; the land
: low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud)
: (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in On’youdou)

On Reading

土 | と to
土 | ど do

noun
: (Abbreviation) Saturday;
: earth (third of the five elements)

に ni

noun
: soil (esp. reddish soil)

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GOLD

金: gold

By Chinese Word, Japanese Word, Language-Learning, Music
 

金 jīn

noun | radical 167
: generic term for metals
: money
: one of the eight ancient musical instruments 八音 ba1yin made of eight different materials (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹)

Kun Reading

かね kane

noun
: money; metal

こがね kogane

noun | no-adjective
: gold

On Reading

きん kin

noun | noun suffix
: gold; golden (color); metaphor for (most) valuable; gold (medal, cup)
: money (written before an amount)
: (Abbreviation) Friday
: metal (fourth of the five elements)
: Jin (dynasty of China; 1115-1234 CE)
: (Abbreviation) gold general (shogi)
: (Abbreviation) (Colloquialism) testicles; () karat; carat

きん kon

noun
: gold; money

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