火

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• 灬 (when used as a bottom Chinese radical)

Etymology

Pictogram (象形)

	火
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

火 (radical 86 火+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 火 (F), four-corner 9080₀)

1. fire, flame
2. burn
3. anger, rage

Derived terms

• Index:Chinese radical/火
• 黑 (黒)

References

• KangXi: page 665, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18850
• Dae Jaweon: page 1073, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2187, character 1
• Unihan data for U+706B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

火 (jyutping fo2, Yale fo2)

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Hakka

Hanzi

火 (POJ fó, Guangdong fo³, Hagfa Pinyim fo3)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

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Wikipedia

Kanji

火 (grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. fire

Readings

• Kan'on: か (ka), (historical) くゎ (kwa)
• Tō'on: こ (ko)
• Kun: ひ (hi), ほ (ho), ふ (fu)

Compounds

Compounds

火炎 (かえん, kaen): flame 火気 (かき, kaki): fire 火器 (かき, kaki): firearms 火急 (かきゅう, kakyū): emergency 火口 (かこう, kakou): crater; (ひぐち, higuchi): torch head, welding tip; (ほくち, hokuchi): tinder, fire starter 火口箱 (ほくちばこ, hokuchibako): tinderbox 火花 (ひばな, hibana) 火災 (かさい, kasai): conflagration 火山 (かざん, kazan): volcano 火山帯 (かざんたい, kazantai): volcanic zone 火山灰 (かざんばい, kazanbai): volcanic ash 火事 (かじ, kaji): fire 火星 (かせい, kasei): Mars 火勢 (かせい, kasei): force of flames 火成岩 (かせいがん, kaseigan): igneous rock 火葬 (かそう, kasō): cremation 火難 (かなん, kanan): fire calamity 火薬 (かやく, kayaku): gunpowder 火の手 (ひのて, hi no te): flames

業火 (ごうか, gōka): hellfire 狐火 (きつねひ, kitsunebi): will o' the wisp, foxfire 鬼火 (おにび, onibi): devilfire; will-o'-the-wisps; a jack-o'-lantern 野火 (やか, yaka): wildfire 火曜日 (かようび, kayōbi): Tuesday 火力 (かりょく, karyoku): steam power, firepower 火遊び (ひあそび, hiasobi): playing with fire 火縄銃 (ひなわじゅう, hinawajū): matchlock 火の車 (ひのくるま, hi no kuruma): a fire-spouting cart in Hell, in which sinners are transported: a metaphor for being in a difficult situation, usually financially 火箸 (ひばし, hibashi): tongs 火偏 (ひへん, hihen): the fire radical (portion of a kanji character) 火元 (ひもと, himoto): origin of a fire 火矢: fire arrow 火影 (ほかげ), hokage): firelight/fire shadow 火傷 (かしょう, kashō; やけど, yakedo): a burn (kind of injury) 花火 (花火, hanabi): fireworks 火球 (かきゅう, kakyū): a fireball 火の鳥 (ひのとり, hinotori): a phoenix 火鼠 (ひねずみ, hi nezumi): A fire rat/mouse

Etymology 1

火

From Old Japanese. /hi₂/: [pɨ] > [ɸɨ] > [ɸi] > [çi]. See apophonic form ho.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA: [çi]

Noun

火 (hiragana ひ, romaji hi)

1. a fire; flames
2. a light
3. heat

Derived terms

• 火遊び (ひあそび, hi asobi): playing with fire
• 篝火 (かがりび, kagaribi): a fire set in an iron cage-like bucket and used as illumination by guards or hunters; a capable person who gets things done

Idioms

• 火を見るよりも明らか (ひをみるよりもあきらか, hi o miru yori mo akiraka): "clearer than seeing the fire" → as plain as day, as plain as the nose on one's face, as clear as a bell

Etymology 2

From Old Japanese. /ho/: [po] > [ɸo] > [ho]. Found in compounds. See apophonic form hi.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA: [ho̞]

Noun

火 (hiragana ほ, romaji ho)

1. a fire

Derived terms

• 火気 (ほけ, hoke): a flame; heat; smoke
• 炎, 焔 (ほむら, homura): flames; metaphorical flames, connoting strong emotions such as anger or jealousy, or such as ambition or passion
• 炎 (ほのお, honoo): a flame
• 火照る (ほてる, hoteru): to feel hot or flushed
• 火先 (ほさき、ひさき, "hosaki", "hisaki"): tip of a flame

Etymology 3

From Old Japanese. Ancient dialect form in eastern Japan. Found in compounds.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA: [ɸu͍]

Noun

火 (hiragana ふ, romaji fu)

1. a fire

Derived terms

• 葦火 (あしふ, ashifu): ancient eastern Japanese dialect reading for 葦火 (ashibi): a fire using dried reeds as kindling or fuel

Etymology 4

火（か）: fire in the Wu Xing system

火（か）: Antares in the Scorpio constellation

From Middle Chinese 火.

Pronunciation

• On'yomi, specifically kan'on
• IPA: [ka̠]

Noun

火 (hiragana か, romaji ka, historical hiragana くゎ)

1. fire
2. one of the five classical elements in traditional Chinese philosophy and medicine: see the "Wu Xing" entry on Wikipedia
3. under the old Ritsuryō system of ancient Japan, a military grouping, consisting of 10 soldiers: a squad

Synonyms

• (squad): (modern Japanese) 分隊 (ぶんたい, buntai)

Proper noun

火 (hiragana か, romaji Ka, historical hiragana くゎ)

1. Tuesday
2. Antares, in the constellation Scorpio

Synonyms

• (Tuesday): 火曜 (かよう, Kayō), 火曜日 (かようび, Kayōbi)
• (Antares): アンタレス (Antaresu)

References

• 1988, Kokugo Dai Jiten Dictionary, edition Revised edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Shogakukan:
• 1997, Akira Matsumura editor, Digital Daijisen^[1] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Shogakukan, ISBN 4099068625, retrieved on 2012-06-07:

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Korean

Hanja

火
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 화 (revised: hwa, McCune-Reischauer: hwa, Yale: hwa)

• Name (hangeul): 불 (revised: bul, McCune-Reischauer: pul, Yale: pul)

1. fire

Compounds

• 火焰
• 發火
• 火災
• 大火
• 電火
• 燈火
• 火食
• 火急
• 心火
• 火器
• 火藥
• 火砲
• 電光石火
• 電氣點火
• 戰火
• 絶火
• 點火
• 點火口

Noun

火 (hwa)

1. fire
2. anger
3. (as an abbreviation) Tuesday

Synonyms

• (Tuesday): 화요일 (hwayoil, “Tuesday”)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

火 (pinyin huǒ (huo3), Wade-Giles huo³)

Noun

1. fire
2. anger
3. temper

Compounds

火中 火把 火把节 火伴 火棒 火暴, 火爆 火并 火柴 火场 火车 火车头 火炽 火铳 火刀 火电 火毒 火夫 火攻 火罐儿 火光 火锅 火海 火海刀山 火红 火候, 火候儿 火花 火花塞 火化 火鸡 火急 火急火燎 火棘 火剪 火碱 火箭 火箭弹 火箭筒 火井 火警 火具 火炬

火炕 火坑 火口湖 火筷子 火辣辣, 火辣辣的 火力 火力点 火力发电 火力圈 火镰 火亮 火烈鸟 火龙 火笼 火炉, 火炉儿 火轮 火轮船 火冒三丈 火媒, 火煤 火苗 火捻, 火捻儿 火炮 火盆 火拼 火漆 火气 火器 火钳 火枪 火墙 火情 火热 火绒 火色 火山 火山岛 火山地震 火山口 火山岩 火上加油 火烧 火烧火燎

火烧眉毛 火烧云 火舌 火绳 火石 火势 火树银花 火速 火炭 火塘 火烫 火头 火头军 火头上 火腿 火网 火险 火线 火硝 火星 火眼 火眼金睛 火焰 火焰喷射器 火药 火药味 火印 火源 火灾 火葬 火躁 火针 火纸 火中取栗 火种 火烛 火主 火柱 火箸 火砖 火頭 火字旁儿

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Vietnamese

Han character

火 (hoả)