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钬

huǒ

Character Traditional 鈥

What 钬 means

1. holmium (chemistry)

Characters built on 火

These share the phonetic component 火 (huǒ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 伙huǒ(bound form) meals (as in 伙食; variant of 伙
• 烁shuòbright; luminous
• 灼zhuóto burn; to sear; to scorch; (bound form) bright; luminous

Sounds the same

Read huǒ, tone for tone, but written differently.

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