火 — Chinese character
火
huǒ
fire, flame; to burn; anger, rage
- Pinyin
- huǒ
- Radical
- 86 ⽕ (Fire)
- Strokes
- 4
- Components
- 丷 人
- Formation
- pictographic — Flames
- Japanese
- 火 as a kanji
Common words with 火
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 火车 (火車) | huǒ chē | train; measure word: 列 (liè), 节 (jié), 班 (bān), 趟 (tàng) |
| 火箭 | huǒ jiàn | rocket; measure word: 枚 (méi) |
| 火车站 (火車站) | huǒ chē zhàn | train station |
| 火灾 (火災) | huǒ zāi | serious fire (in a city or a forest etc) |
| 火山 | huǒ shān | volcano |
| 大火 | dà huǒ | conflagration; large fire; 场 (cháng) |
| 火星 | huǒ xīng | spark (from a fire) |
| 火焰 | huǒ yàn | blaze; flame |
| 火力 | huǒ lì | fire; firepower |
| 开火 (開火) | kāi huǒ | to open fire; to start shooting; to light the flame (for cooking) |
| 军火 (軍火) | jūn huǒ | weapons and ammunition; munitions |
| 起火 | qǐ huǒ | to catch fire; to cook |
English words written with 火
火 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 3 · Art of War 21 · Mencius 13 · Zhuangzi 24
- Analects 15.34
- Analects 17.21
- Art of War 7.18
- Art of War 7.26
- Art of War 12.1
- Art of War 12.2
- Art of War 12.3
- Art of War 12.5
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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