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发炎

fā yán

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 發炎

发炎 (fā yán) means "to become inflamed". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 发炎 means

1. to become inflamed
2. inflammation

The characters in 发炎

• 发fāto send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue
• 炎yánflame; inflammation; -itis

Example sentences

• 他的肚脐发炎了。
  Tā de dùqí fāyán le.
  He had an infection in his belly button.

Sounds the same

Read fā yán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 发言to make a speech; statement; utterance

Where 发炎 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · ēn–fā (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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