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  *火* | 火* | *火
fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86
HSK 3
train / CL: , 節|节, ,
HSK 1
match (for lighting fire) / CL: ,
HSK 5
to catch fire
HSK 4
to get angry / to suffer from excessive internal heat (TCM)
HSK 7-9
to ignite / to light a fire / to agitate / to start an engine / ignition / fig. to stir up trouble
HSK 7-9
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *火* | 火* | *火
surname Huo
serious fire (in a city or a forest etc)
HSK 5
blaze / flame
HSK 7-9
to skyrocket in popularity; to go viral
lit. sturdy grass withstands high winds and true gold stands the test of fire (idiom) / fig. strength of character is revealed in a crisis
rocket / CL:
HSK 6
fish brings heat, meat brings phlegm, vegetables and tofu keep you healthy
cease-fire line
lit. mountains of daggers and seas of flames / fig. extreme danger (idiom)
lighter / cigarette lighter
at top speed / at a tremendous lick
HSK 7-9
slash and burn (agriculture)
volcanic crater
gunpowder
HSK 7-9
volcano
HSK 7-9
scorching hot / (of a burn or other injury) painful; burning / (of one's mood) agitated; heated; intense / (of a personality) fiery; sharp-tongued / (Tw) (of a woman's figure) smoking hot
HSK 7-9
spark / sparkle
HSK 7-9
to take advantage of sb's misfortune / to loot
to exchange fire; to engage in a firefight / (fig.) to clash verbally; to exchange sharp criticism
train station
rocket artillery
heat control / (fig.) mastery / (fig.) crucial moment
HSK 7-9
to catch fire / to ignite / to detonate / to get angry
HSK 7-9
firewall
HSK 7-9
fire beacon (to give alarm)
(flaming) torch / CL:
HSK 7-9
fireworks
HSK 7-9
firearm / CL:
smoke and fire / cooked food / (literary) beacon fire / (literary) descendants; posterity
HSK 7-9
to cease fire / ceasefire
hotpot / (basketball) a blocked shot; a block
HSK 7-9
fireball; ball of fire
to rise from the ashes (idiom) / to thrive again after surviving an ordeal
lit. to see sth as clearly as one sees a blazing fire (idiom) / fig. to grasp the situation thoroughly
FireWire (IEEE 1394 data-transfer interface)
firing line (battle) / live electrical wire
brightly lit
to go off accidentally / to catch fire
cassowary (genus Casuarius), large flightless bird native to northeastern Australia and New Guinea / CL: 隻|只
deep water and scorching fire / abyss of suffering (idiom)
fiery / burning / fervent / ardent / passionate
HSK 7-9
prosperous
HSK 7-9
display of fireworks and lanterns
fire alarm
fuse (for explosives) / (fig.) proximate cause / the last straw
lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom); inferno in a woodpile / fig. consuming passion between lovers
booster rocket
lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency
carrier rocket
fuse (for explosive)
HSK 7-9
(of fire, lamp etc) to go out / to put out (fire) / (fig.) to die down / (of a vehicle) to stall
HSK 7-9
Naruto, manga and anime series
(idiom) to be on very good terms with each other / to hit it off with sb / to be passionately in love with each other / to carry on intimately with / (of trading, conflict etc) to be in full swing
a single spark can start a huge blaze (idiom); an insignificant cause can have a massive effect
bazooka / rocket launcher
otherworldly; detached from the mundane concerns of ordinary life
fiery
fire and flood have no mercy (idiom)
lit. to climb mountains of swords and enter seas of flames (idiom) / fig. to go through trials and tribulations (often, for a noble cause)
to add oil to the fire (idiom); fig. to aggravate a situation / to enrage people and make matters worse
weapons and ammunition / munitions / arms
backfire (firefighting)
electric spark
to get angry
to catch fire; to be on fire
completely incompatible / lit. incompatible as fire and water
to protect against fire
like wildfire (idiom) / unstoppable
most urgent / posthaste / express
stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt / fig. to suffer on account of one's own meddling
spark / meteor trail (mostly used in expressions like 急如星火)
lit. as hurried as a shooting star (idiom); requiring immediate action / extremely urgent
flamethrower
artillery barrage / gunfire
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)
(dialect) intensity of the fire (in cooking, kiln firing etc)
fire control (gunnery)
stick figure; stick person
firearms (in historical context) / flintlock (old powder and shot firearm)
fire danger (abbr. for 火災危險|火灾危险) / fire insurance (abbr. for 火災保險|火灾保险)
buldak ramen (a type of spicy Korean instant noodles)
irascibility / irritability / (TCM) inflammation of the liver
burning with desire
to set fire to / to burn down / burning hot / baked cake
to warm oneself at a fire
pit of fire / fig. living hell
Honolulu, capital of Hawaii / also called 檀香山
a sea of flames
to kill and burn (idiom); murder and arson
painful heat / scorching / rude and forthright / provocative / hot / sexy
the scene of a fire
fire extinguisher

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