huǒ

fire; hot (popular); fiery or flaming

HSK 2 #433

Character data

HSK 2
Frequency 433rd character
Radical ⽕ (86.0)
Strokes 4
Index # 164

Definitions

火 huǒ
  1. 1. fire
  2. 2. hot (popular)
  3. 3. fiery or flaming
  4. 4. urgent
  5. 5. ammunition
  6. 6. internal heat (Chinese medicine)
  7. 7. surname Huo
  8. 8. Kangxi radical 86
  9. 9. classifier for military units (old)

Stroke order

火 stroke order diagram
火 stroke order animation

Words containing 火

Word Meaning
(fig.) proximate cause; fuse (for explosives)
(fig.) proximate cause; fuse (for explosives)
conflict close to home; a fire in one's backyard
extremely urgent
brisk heat (cooking)
to get angry; irritated; to annoy
fig. to suffer on account of one's own meddling
fig. to suffer on account of one's own meddling
low heat (cooking)
lust
lust
burning with desire
burning with desire
the fire of war; conflagration
war raging everywhere; war-torn
war raging everywhere; in a war-torn state
to carry on intimately with (idiom); ardent relationship (esp. between lovers)
lighter; cigarette lighter
to fix a problem but make it worse
to do cupping therapy on the body
erhua variant of bá huǒ guàn
erhua variant of bá huǒ guàn