Chinese symbol for “spark”
火星
huǒ xīng
spark (from a fire)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for spark is 火星 (huǒ xīng), defined as: spark (from a fire).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “spark”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 火花 | huǒ huā | spark; sparkle |
| 星火 | xīng huǒ | spark; meteor trail (mostly used in expressions like 急如星火 (jí rú xīng huǒ)) |
| 闪 (閃) | shǎn | to dodge; to duck out of the way |
| 触发 (觸發) | chù fā | to trigger; to spark |
| 火种 (火種) | huǒ zhǒng | tinder; source of a fire |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 火星.
| 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) |
| 星期 | xīng qī | week; 个 (gè) |
| 明星 | míng xīng | star; celebrity |
See also: Japanese symbol for “spark”.
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.