| 炎 | [ yán ] flame, inflammation, -itis |
| 炎亞綸 | [ yán yà lún ] Aaron Yan (1986-), Taiwanese singer |
| 炎夏 | [ yán xià ] hot summer, scorching summer |
| 炎帝 | [ yán dì ] Flame Emperors (c. 2000 BC), legendary dynasty descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God |
| 炎帝陵 | [ yán dì líng ] Fiery Emperor's tomb in Yanling county, Zhuzhou 株洲, Hunan |
| 炎性 | [ yán xìng ] inflammatory (medicine) |
| 炎性反應 | [ yán xìng fǎn yìng ] inflammation response |
| 炎炎 | [ yán yán ] scorching |
| 炎熱 | [ yán rè ] blistering hot, sizzling hot (weather) |
| 炎症 | [ yán zhèng ] inflammation |
| 炎陵 | [ yán líng ] Yanling County in Zhuzhou 株洲[Zhu1 zhou1], Hunan |
| 炎陵縣 | [ yán líng xiàn ] Yanling County in Zhuzhou 株洲[Zhu1 zhou1], Hunan |
| 炎黃子孫 | [ yán huáng zǐ sūn ] descendants of the Fiery Emperor and the Yellow Emperor (i.e. Han Chinese people) |
| ⇒ 丁型肝炎 | [ dīng xíng gān yán ] hepatitis D |
| ⇒ 世態炎涼 | [ shì taì yán liáng ] the hypocrisy of the world (idiom) |
| ⇒ 丙型肝炎 | [ bǐng xíng gān yán ] hepatitis C |
| ⇒ 中耳炎 | [ zhōng ěr yán ] inflammation of middle ear, otitis media |
| ⇒ 乙型肝炎 | [ yǐ xíng gān yán ] hepatitis B |
| ⇒ 乙型腦炎 | [ yǐ xíng naǒ yán ] epidemic encephalitis B, aka Japanese encephalitis |
| ⇒ 乳腺炎 | [ rǔ xiàn yán ] mastitis |
| ⇒ 前列腺炎 | [ qián liè xiàn yán ] prostatitis |
| ⇒ 口腔炎 | [ koǔ qiāng yán ] stomatitis, ulceration of oral cavity, inflammation of the mucous lining of the mouth |
| ⇒ 司馬炎 | [ sī mǎ yán ] Sima Yan (236-290), founding emperor of Jin dynasty 晉|晋[Jin4] after the Three Kingdoms period, reigned 265-290 as Emperor Wu of Jin 晉武帝|晋武帝[Jin4 Wu3 di4] |
| ⇒ 咽峽炎 | [ yān xiá yán ] angina, sore throat |
| ⇒ 咽炎 | [ yān yán ] pharyngitis |
| ⇒ 喉炎 | [ hoú yán ] laryngitis |
| ⇒ 大葉性肺炎 | [ dà yè xìng feì yán ] lobar pneumonia |
| ⇒ 委內瑞拉馬腦炎病毒 | [ weǐ neì ruì lā mǎ naǒ yán bìng dú ] Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) virus |
| ⇒ 巨細胞病毒視網膜炎 | [ jù xì baō bìng dú shì wǎng mó yán ] cytomegalovirus retinitis, a disease of the retina that can lead to blindness, CMV retinitis |
| ⇒ 己型肝炎 | [ jǐ xíng gān yán ] hepatitis F |
| ⇒ 強直性脊柱炎 | [ qiáng zhí xìng jǐ zhù yán ] ankylosing spondylitis, Bechterew’s disease |
| ⇒ 心肌炎 | [ xīn jī yán ] myocarditis |
| ⇒ 急性腸炎 | [ jí xìng cháng yán ] acute enteritis |
| ⇒ 急性闌尾炎 | [ jí xìng lán weǐ yán ] acute appendicitis (medicine) |
| ⇒ 憩室炎 | [ qì shì yán ] diverticulitis |
| ⇒ 戊型肝炎 | [ wù xíng gān yán ] hepatitis E |
| ⇒ 扁桃腺炎 | [ biǎn taó xiàn yán ] tonsillitis |
| ⇒ 扁桃體炎 | [ biǎn taó tǐ yán ] tonsillitis |
| ⇒ 抗炎性 | [ kàng yán xìng ] anti-inflammatory (medicine) |
| ⇒ 支原體肺炎 | [ zhī yuán tǐ feì yán ] Mycoplasma pneumonia |
| ⇒ 支氣管炎 | [ zhī qì guǎn yán ] bronchitis |
| ⇒ 新冠肺炎 | [ xīn guān feì yán ] COVID-19, the coronavirus disease identified in 2019 |
| ⇒ 日本腦炎 | [ rì běn naǒ yán ] Japanese encephalitis |
| ⇒ 會厭炎 | [ huì yàn yán ] epiglottitis |
| ⇒ 東方馬腦炎病毒 | [ dōng fāng mǎ naǒ yán bìng dú ] eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus |
| ⇒ 森林腦炎 | [ sēn lín naǒ yán ] forest encephalitis |
| ⇒ 氣管炎 | [ qì guǎn yán ] bacterial tracheitis (inflammation of the windpipe, often caused by Staphylococcus aureus), henpecked (a pun on 妻子管得嚴|妻子管得严[qi1 zi5 guan3 de5 yan2] used in comic theater) |
| ⇒ 治療炎症 | [ zhì yán zhèng ] anti-inflammatory (medicine) |
| ⇒ 消炎 | [ yán ] to reduce fever, antipyretic, to decrease inflammation |
| ⇒ 消炎片 | [ yán piàn ] antipyretic tablet (to reduce fever), such as sulfanilamide |
| ⇒ 消炎藥 | [ yán yaò ] anti-inflammatory medicine |
| ⇒ 火炎焱燚 | [ huǒ yán yàn yì ] hot (i.e. popular) (emphatic form of 火[huo3]) (neologism c. 2016) |
| ⇒ 炎炎 | [ yán yán ] scorching |
| ⇒ 牙周炎 | [ yá zhoū yán ] periodontitis (gum disorder) |
| ⇒ 牙齦炎 | [ yá yín yán ] gingivitis |
| ⇒ 甲型肝炎 | [ jiǎ xíng gān yán ] hepatitis A |
| ⇒ 甲溝炎 | [ jiǎ goū yán ] paronychia (medicine) |
| ⇒ 病毒性肝炎 | [ bìng dú xìng gān yán ] viral hepatitis |
| ⇒ 發炎 | [ fā yán ] to become inflamed, inflammation |
| ⇒ 皮炎 | [ pí yán ] dermatitis |
| ⇒ 盲腸炎 | [ máng cháng yán ] appendicitis |
| ⇒ 瞼腺炎 | [ jiǎn xiàn yán ] sty (eyelid swelling) |
| ⇒ 章太炎 | [ zhāng taì yán ] Zhang Taiyan (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution |
| ⇒ 細支氣管炎 | [ xì zhī qì guǎn yán ] bronchiolitis |
| ⇒ 結腸炎 | [ jié cháng yán ] colitis (medicine) |
| ⇒ 結膜炎 | [ jié mó yán ] conjunctivitis |
| ⇒ 肝炎 | [ gān yán ] hepatitis |
| ⇒ 肩周炎 | [ jiān zhoū yán ] adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder) |
| ⇒ 肺炎 | [ feì yán ] pneumonia, inflammation of the lungs |
| ⇒ 肺炎克雷伯氏菌 | [ feì yán kè leí bó shì jūn ] Klebsiella pnenmoniae |
| ⇒ 肺炎雙球菌 | [ feì yán shuāng qiú jūn ] Diplococcus pneumoniae |
| ⇒ 肺炎黴漿菌 | [ feì yán meí jiāng jūn ] Mycoplasma pneumoniae |
| ⇒ 胃炎 | [ weì yán ] gastritis |
| ⇒ 胰腺炎 | [ yí xiàn yán ] pancreatitis |
| ⇒ 胰臟炎 | [ yí zàng yán ] pancreatitis |
| ⇒ 胸膜炎 | [ xiōng mó yán ] pleurisy |
| ⇒ 脊髓灰質炎 | [ jǐ suǐ huī zhì yán ] poliomyelitis |
| ⇒ 脊髓炎 | [ jǐ suǐ yán ] myelitis, inflammation of spinal cord |
| ⇒ 腎炎 | [ shèn yán ] kidney inflammation, nephritis |
| ⇒ 腎盂炎 | [ shèn yú yán ] pyelitis (medicine) |
| ⇒ 腦炎 | [ naǒ yán ] encephalitis |
| ⇒ 腦膜炎 | [ naǒ mó yán ] meningitis |
| ⇒ 腮腺炎 | [ saī xiàn yán ] mumps |
| ⇒ 腱炎 | [ jiàn yán ] tendonitis |
| ⇒ 腱鞘炎 | [ jiàn yán ] tenosynovitis (medicine) |
| ⇒ 腸炎 | [ cháng yán ] enteritis |
| ⇒ 腸胃炎 | [ cháng weì yán ] gastroenteritis |
| ⇒ 膀胱炎 | [ páng guāng yán ] cystitis |
| ⇒ 膜炎 | [ mó yán ] inflammation of membrane, membranitis |
| ⇒ 西方馬腦炎病毒 | [ xī fāng mǎ naǒ yán bìng dú ] western equine encephalitis (WEE) virus |
| ⇒ 角膜炎 | [ mó yán ] keratitis (inflammation of the cornea) |
| ⇒ 趨炎附勢 | [ qū yán fù shì ] to curry favor (idiom); playing up to those in power, social climbing |
| ⇒ 足底筋膜炎 | [ zú dǐ jīn mó yán ] plantar fasciitis (medicine) |
| ⇒ 闌尾炎 | [ lán weǐ yán ] appendicitis (medicine) |
| ⇒ 關節炎 | [ guān jié yán ] arthritis |
| ⇒ 陰道炎 | [ yīn daò yán ] vaginal infection, inflammation of the vulva or vagina, colpitis |
| ⇒ 陳慶炎 | [ chén qìng yán ] Tony Tan (1940-), president of Singapore 2011-2017 |
| ⇒ 陽炎 | [ yáng yán ] dazzling sunlight, glare of sunlight |
| ⇒ 非典型肺炎 | [ feī diǎn xíng feì yán ] atypical pneumonia, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, SARS |
| ⇒ 顧炎武 | [ gù yán wǔ ] Gu Yanwu (1613-1682), late Ming and early Qing Confucian philosopher, linguist and historian, played a founding role in phonology of early Chinese, author of Rizhilu or Record of daily study 日知錄|日知录 |
| ⇒ 風濕性關節炎 | [ fēng shī xìng guān jié yán ] rheumatoid arthritis |
| ⇒ 風濕關節炎 | [ fēng shī guān jié yán ] rheumatoid arthritis |
| ⇒ 骨關節炎 | [ gǔ guān jié yán ] osteoarthritis |
| ⇒ 黃炎貴胄 | [ huáng yán guì zhoù ] honorable Chinese nationals (idiom) |
| ⇒ 黴漿菌肺炎 | [ meí jiāng jūn feì yán ] mycoplasma pneumonia |
| ⇒ 鼻炎 | [ bí yán ] rhinitis |
| ⇒ 鼻竇炎 | [ bí doù yán ] sinusitis |
| ⇒ 齒齦炎 | [ chǐ yín yán ] gingivitis |
| ⇒ 齦炎 | [ yín yán ] gingivitis |
