Dictionary › 火候

火候

huǒ hou

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

火候 (huǒ hou) means "heat control; (fig.) mastery; (fig.) crucial moment". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 火候 means

1. heat control
2. (fig.) mastery
3. (fig.) crucial moment

The characters in 火候

• 火huǒfire; urgent; ammunition
• 候hòuto wait; to inquire after; to watch

Words containing 火候

• 不到火候不揭锅bù dào huǒ hòu bù jiē guōdon't act until the time is ripe (idiom)

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read huǒ hou correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.