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火

huǒ

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 character level 1 Character

火 (huǒ) means "fire; (colloq.) angry; popular". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 火 means

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

Other readings

火 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Huǒsurname Huo

Example sentences

• 火！
  Fire!
• 停火。
  Tínghuǒ.
  Don't shoot.
• 开火！
  Kāihuǒ!
  Open fire!
• 开火!
  Open fire!
• 火啊！
  Fire!
• 有火吗？
  Have you got a light?

Words starting with 火

• 火车站huǒ chē zhàntrain station
• 火车huǒ chētrain
• 火柴huǒ cháimatch (for lighting fire)
• 火箭huǒ jiànrocket
• 火焰huǒ yànblaze; flame
• 火药huǒ yàogunpowder
• 火锅huǒ guōhotpot; (basketball) a blocked shot; a block
• 火爆huǒ bàofiery (temper); popular; flourishing
• 火灾huǒ zāiserious fire (in a city or a forest etc)
• 火星huǒ xīngspark (from a fire)
• 火车票huǒ chē piàotrain ticket
• 火烧huǒ shāoto set fire to; to burn down; burning hot
• 火热huǒ rèfiery; burning; fervent
• 火花huǒ huāspark; sparkle
• 火山huǒ shānvolcano
• 火腿huǒ tuǐham
• 火光huǒ guāngflame; blaze
• 火炬huǒ jù(flaming) torch
• 火力huǒ lìfire; firepower
• 火气huǒ qìanger; internal heat (TCM)
• 火炉huǒ lústove
• 火化huǒ huàto cremate; to incinerate
• 火把huǒ bǎtorch
• 火红huǒ hóngfiery; blazing

Words containing 火

• 恼火nǎo huǒannoyed; riled; vexed
• 发火fā huǒto catch fire; to ignite; to detonate
• 大火dà huǒconflagration; large fire
• 红火hóng huǒprosperous
• 灯火dēng huǒlights
• 着火zháo huǒto catch fire
• 打火机dǎ huǒ jīlighter; cigarette lighter
• 怒火nù huǒrage; fury; hot anger
• 防火fáng huǒto protect against fire
• 烈火liè huǒraging inferno; blaze
• 点火diǎn huǒto ignite; to light a fire; to agitate
• 放火fàng huǒto set on fire; to commit arson; to create a disturbance
• 烟火yān huǒsmoke and fire; cooked food; (literary) beacon fire
• 战火zhàn huǒthe flames of war; the ravages of war
• 篝火gōu huǒbonfire
• 香火xiāng huǒincense burning in front of a temple; burning joss sticks
• 上火shàng huǒto get angry; to suffer from excessive internal heat (TCM)
• 炮火pào huǒartillery barrage; gunfire
• 起火qǐ huǒto catch fire; to cook; to get angry
• 过火guò huǒto go too far; to go overboard (in words or actions); over the top; excessive; burned
• 萤火虫yíng huǒ chóngfirefly; glowworm; lightning bug
• 热火朝天rè huǒ cháo tiānin full swing (idiom); (in a) frenzy; buzzing with activity
• 防火墙fáng huǒ qiángfirewall
• 如火如荼rú huǒ rú túlike wildfire (idiom); unstoppable

Characters that look like 火

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 太tàihighest; greatest; too (much)
• 夫fūhusband; man; manual worker
• 灭mièto extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc); to exterminate or wipe out
• 叉chāfork; pitchfork; prong
• 犬quǎn(literary) dog; Kangxi radical 94

Sounds the same

Read huǒ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 伙(bound form) meals (as in 伙食; variant of 伙
• 夥(literary) many; numerous
• 钬holmium (chemistry)
• 灬"fire" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 86), occurring in 熙, 然, 熊 etc

Where 火 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Physical sensations & states (HSK 4), High-Frequency Radicals as Meaning Cues (HSK 0), Basic Strokes and Stroke-Order Rules (HSK 0), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read huǒ correctly.
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