fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born / to arise; to occur / to light (a fire) / to live; to be alive / life / raw; uncooked; unprocessed / unfamiliar; strange / (bound form) student; person engaged in a field / (bound form) male role in traditional opera / (bound form) life; lifetime / (bound form) means of livelihood / (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼) / (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽)

to walk; to go on foot / to leave; to depart / (informal) to clear off; to beat it / (of sb who gets fired or resigns) to leave the job; to get out

a brush / to paint; to daub / to brush; to scrub / (fig.) to remove; to eliminate (from a contest); to fire (from a job) / (onom.) swish; rustle / to swipe (a card) / to scroll on (a phone) / (gaming) to grind; to farm (for experience points, equipment, levels etc)

to finish class / to get out of class / (fig.) (esp. of a sports coach) to be dismissed / to be fired

match (for lighting fire) / CL: 根, 盒

to touch briefly; to tap / to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list) / to order (food etc); to select / to mention; to bring up (a topic or person) / to hint at; to imply / to administer (eye medicine etc) in drops / to light (a fire, a lamp etc); to ignite / to nod (one's head) in agreement; to beckon by moving (one's hand) up and down / point; dot; spot; speck / dot stroke in Chinese characters / (math.) decimal point / point in time or space / (after a number) o'clock / a small amount; a bit; (after a verb or adjective) a bit more / classifier for small amounts

to shoot; to fire (a gun)

to shoot (a projectile) / to fire (a rocket) / to launch / to emit (a particle) / to discharge / emanation / emission

to touch / to come in contact with / to feel / to be affected by / to catch fire / to burn / (coll.) to fall asleep / (after a verb) hitting the mark / succeeding in

(military, gaming) to concentrate fire on a single target

to catch fire / to ignite / to detonate / to get angry

firefighting / fire control

to leave / to part from / to be away from / (in giving distances) from / without (sth) / independent of / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing fire / ☲

stick or rod used to tend a fire

serious fire (in a city or a forest etc)

to catch fire

earthen stove; clay stove (typically wood-fired)

fireball; ball of fire

to cause to explode / to fire / to set off

to sauté; to stir-fry / to speculate (in real estate etc); to scalp / to hype up / to sack; to fire (sb)

to destroy by fire

only the official is allowed to light the fire / Gods may do what cattle may not / quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi

(idiom) to act without taking time to think; to react instantly; to fire from the hip

to extinguish or put out / to go out (of a fire etc) / to exterminate or wipe out / to drown

fired power plant (i.e. fired by coal, oil or gas)

to ignite / to set on fire / aflame

to cease fire / armistice / rested troops

to expel (a member of an organization) / to fire (an employee)

to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc / to dial / to allocate / to set aside (money) / to poke (the fire) / to pluck (a string instrument) / to turn round / classifier: group, batch

range / reach / firing range

to warm oneself (by a fire, heater etc)

to exchange fire; to engage in a firefight / (fig.) to clash verbally; to exchange sharp criticism

prosperous / flourishing / (of flowers) blooming / (of fire) roaring

five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水

to roast; to grill; to broil; to bake; to toast (bread) / to warm oneself by a fire

to fight back; to return fire; to counterattack

to burn / to set on fire

to destroy (or be destroyed) by fire

the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism) / the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放｜大鸣大放, 大辯論｜大辩论, 大字報｜大字报 (PRC)

fire beacon (to give alarm)

up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession / no sooner one subsides, the next arises / repeating continuously / occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, conflicts, uprisings etc)

to open fire / to shoot a gun

to fire / to sack / to dismiss / to terminate employment

fire brigade / fire department

fire beacon (used as alarm signal over long distance)

to cease fire / ceasefire

to cease fire; to stop fighting / armistice; truce

sacred fire; (esp.) the Olympic flame

firefighting / to extinguish a fire and save life and property / to dive (of goalkeeper in soccer)

to ignite / to light a fire / to agitate / to start an engine / ignition / fig. to stir up trouble

fire engine / fire truck

to go off accidentally / to catch fire

(idiom) to be fired up; to have one's blood racing; to be burning (with excitement, passion, anger etc)

from the cradle to the grave (idiom); to go through fire and water / brave / willing to risk life and limb

smoke and fire / cooked food / (literary) beacon fire / (literary) descendants; posterity

to cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct / to endure

fire / fury / angry

fire alarm

True gold fears no fire. (idiom)

curved-fire gun (mortar, howitzer etc)

to dismiss / to discharge / to fire

(military) to undergo field training (camping, bivouacking, route marching, live fire practice etc) / (sports) to get into peak condition by competing overseas

cannon fire to hit a mosquito / to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut

to fire / to discharge / to release (fireworks, smokescreen, poison gas, virus etc)

lit. to fire pots and smelt metal / fig. to educate

(of fire, lamp etc) to go out / to put out (fire) / (fig.) to die down / (of a vehicle) to stall

to cure by drying over a fire (tea, meat etc) / to bake

to smoke; to cure over a fire

lit. to jump into scalding water and plunge into raging fire (idiom) / fig. to brave any danger / to go to any lengths (for a noble cause)

lit. without wind there cannot be waves (idiom); there must be a reason / no smoke without fire

to add oil to the fire (idiom); fig. to aggravate a situation / to enrage people and make matters worse

fire danger (abbr. for 火災危險｜火灾危险) / fire insurance (abbr. for 火災保險｜火灾保险)

to catch fire; to be on fire

completely incompatible / lit. incompatible as fire and water

to protect against fire

lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency

catapult / ballista (siege catapult firing stone blocks)

(bound form) a sieve / to sieve; to sift; to filter / to eliminate through selection / to warm a pot of rice wine (over a fire or in hot water) / to pour (wine or tea) / (dialect) to strike (a gong)

to pour oil on the fire (idiom); fig. to aggravate a situation / to enrage people and make matters worse

lit. sturdy grass withstands high winds and true gold stands the test of fire (idiom) / fig. strength of character is revealed in a crisis

to drill wood to make fire

(dialect) intensity of the fire (in cooking, kiln firing etc)

cease-fire line

fire control (gunnery)

"fire" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 86), occurring in 熙, 然, 熊 etc

to set on fire / to commit arson

shoulder-fired missile

broadside / simultaneous fired cannonade

(coll.) to fire sb / to sack sb

to warm oneself at a fire

pit of fire / fig. living hell

to stop burning / to go out (of fire) / to die out / extinguished

lit. to put a fire under a pile of firewood (idiom) / fig. hidden danger / imminent danger

to execute by firing squad / to shoot dead / fig. to discard / to get rid of

to put out a fire / firefighting

to execute by firing squad / same as 槍斃｜枪毙

fire hydrant

fire / firepower

to stir up the fire / fig. to provoke and offend people / to ruffle feathers