火
Meanings
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- 1.fire
- 2.urgent
- 3.ammunition
- 4.fiery or flaming
- 5.internal heat (Chinese medicine)
- 6.hot (popular)
- 7.classifier for military units (old)
- 8.Kangxi radical 86
- 1.surname Huo
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Wiktionary
- 1.fire; flame (Classifier: 把 m; 團／团 m)
- 2.fire (as a disaster); inferno
- 3.fire, one of the five elements of Wu Xing (五行 (-))
- 4.red; fiery; bright; brilliant
- 5.to burn down
- 6.light; torch
- 7.light; lamp
- 8.anger; rage; wrath
- 9.to become enraged
- 10.angry; furious
- 11.internal heat
- 12.firearm; ammunition; weapon
- 13.war; warfare
- 14.thriving; brisk
- 15.urgent; pressing
- 16.to become popular; to go viral
- 17.to be popular; to be viral
- 18.watt (unit of power)
- 19.roasted
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) – pictographic representation of a fire. Written as 灬 when at the bottom of a character, but still seen in the original form in the character 灸. See also the top component of 叟 in its original form and the bottom part of 赤. Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *məj (Schuessler 2007; STEDT). However, see there for phonological problems. Sagart and Baxter (2024) update their Old Chinese reconstruction to 火 (OC *X.pˤərʔ) (whence MC xwaX → huǒ) and propose alternative cognacy to 燹 (OC *X.pər(ʔ)-s) (whence MC xwijH), both being prefixed by unknown element X- which turned the labial plosive *p(ʰ)- into the fricative *xw-; moreover, both are cognates to 燹 (OC *sə-pˤər(ʔ)-s) (whence MC senX → xiǎn). They also propose that aforesaid Chinese words are cognates to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *par (i.e. STEDT Etymon #2152 *bʷar ~ *pʷar (“fire; burn; kindle; roast”), see there for descendants) as well as Proto-Austronesian *dapuʀ (“cooking fire, hearth”).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
火！
Fire!
火啊！
Fire!
火車來了。
Here comes the train.
火熄灭了。
The fire was out.
动物怕火。
Animals are afraid of fire.
船起了火。
The ship went up in flames.
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Derived terms
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