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阳炎

yáng yán

2-character word Traditional 陽炎

What 阳炎 means

1. dazzling sunlight
2. glare of sunlight

The characters in 阳炎

• 阳yángpositive (electric.); sun; male principle (Taoism)
• 炎yánflame; inflammation; -itis

Sounds the same

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

• 扬言to put about (a story, plan, threat etc); to let it be known…
• 佯言to claim falsely (literary)

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