Chinese symbol for “quench”
淬火
cuì huǒ
to quench; to temper; to harden by quenching
The closest CC-CEDICT match for quench is 淬火 (cuì huǒ), defined as: to quench; to temper; to harden by quenching.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “quench”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 解渴 | jiě kě | to quench |
| 熄 | xī | to extinguish; to put out (fire) |
| 蘸火 | zhàn huǒ | to quench (a metal workpiece) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 淬火.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 淬炼 (淬煉) | cuì liàn | (fig.) to temper; to forge; to toughen (through hardship or repeated trials) |
| 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) |
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.