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Originally, 然 meant 'to burn,' combining 肉 (meat), 犬 (dog), and 灬 (fire) to depict meat roasting over a flame. Over time, it was heavily borrowed as a grammatical suffix, adverbial marker, or conjunction meaning 'so' or 'correct,' causing its fiery sense to fade. To disambiguate, the fire radical 火 was added to the left, forming the modern phono-semantic compound 燃, where 火 indicates the fire-related meaning and 然 provides the sound, now strictly denoting the action of burning.
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森林燃烧了很久。
汽车需要燃料。
我们燃放了烟花。
燃气灶很方便。
发动机燃烧燃油。
他的热情被点燃了。
这种材料不易燃烧。
内燃机是现代工业的基础。
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