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How do you read 陽炎 in Japanese?
The road ahead seems to shimmer.
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Name the shimmering air over hot ground, using the reading beginning with kage.
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A shimmer that makes distant scenery waver above sun-heated ground.
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陽 beside two stacked 火 reading
陽 and 炎 Japanese reading
two kanji for shimmering air over a hot road
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陽 has 12 strokes and the radical 阜 (mound). 炎 has 8 strokes and the radical 火 (fire). Radicals are dictionary classifications. The shape-based search phrases below provide other lookup clues.
陽12 strokes / radical: 阜 (mound)
炎8 strokes / radical: 火 (fire)
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The answer is
かげろう
kagerō
陽炎
Understand the meaning
English translationHeat shimmer
Heat shimmer above sun-warmed ground. It looks like wavering scenery rather than actual flames.
See it in a sentence
日差しの強い道の向こうに、陽炎が揺れていた。Heat shimmer wavered above the sunlit road ahead.
A way to remember
Here it is kagerō; kagiroi and yōen are other readings. The insect 蜉蝣 has the same kagerō reading but a different meaning.
Sources：Kanjipedia: 陽炎
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Using 陽炎
陽炎が揺れる and 陽炎が立つ describe shimmering above heated ground, as on a summer road.
例：遠くの一本道が、陽炎の向こうで揺れて見えた。
The distant straight road appeared to waver through the heat haze.
Reading and meaning in context
炎 does not mean the ground is burning. The intended reading is かげろう, while the reference records other readings for other contexts.
References for this explanation：Kanjipedia: 陽炎
Explanation checked on 2026-10-23. Additional examples were written by DuraRing for this page.
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