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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
to get angry / to suffer from excessive internal heat (TCM)
HSK 7-9
to catch fire / to ignite / to detonate / to get angry
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *火* | 火* | *火
surname Huo
to catch fire
HSK 4
fireball; ball of fire
to skyrocket in popularity; to go viral
(of a city etc) ablaze with lights
to exchange fire; to engage in a firefight / (fig.) to clash verbally; to exchange sharp criticism
weapons and ammunition / munitions / arms
fire beacon (to give alarm)
fireworks
HSK 7-9
annoyed; riled; vexed
to cease fire / ceasefire
sacred fire; (esp.) the Olympic flame
to ignite / to light a fire / to agitate / to start an engine / ignition / fig. to stir up trouble
HSK 7-9
(of sales, TV show ratings etc) lukewarm / moderate / so-so / (of a person) calm / unruffled
to kill and burn (idiom); murder and arson
to go off accidentally / to catch fire
smoke and fire / cooked food / (literary) beacon fire / (literary) descendants; posterity
HSK 7-9
calm / unruffled
the flames of war
excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM) / the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself
(of fire, lamp etc) to go out / to put out (fire) / (fig.) to die down / (of a vehicle) to stall
HSK 7-9
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)
fiery
backfire (firefighting)
to catch fire; to be on fire
to protect against fire
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
artillery barrage / gunfire
to drill wood to make fire
to set on fire / to commit arson
irascibility / irritability / (TCM) inflammation of the liver
to warm oneself at a fire
lust
to put out a fire / firefighting
to stir up the fire / fig. to provoke and offend people / to ruffle feathers
fire and ice / combination of sharply contrasting or incompatible elements
to set on fire / to commit arson / to create a disturbance
to make a fire; to light a fire
penetrating (vision)
to get angry
conflagration; large fire / CL: 場|场
plant material used as fuel (firewood, straw, leaves etc)
to add fuel to the flames
to make a fire
lights
(of a newly appointed official) to make bold changes on assuming office (idiom)
bustling / energetic
the truth will come out eventually; a secret can't be kept forever
to kindle / to light a fire
to borrow a light (for a cigarette)
a conflict arises close to home (idiom)
rage / fury / hot anger
the sun shines fiercely
low heat (cooking)
(idiom) to fan the flames / to incite people / to stir up trouble
prosperous
HSK 7-9
to light a fire for cooking
to warm oneself facing the fire
lit. to carry firewood to put out a fire (idiom); fig. to make a problem worse by inappropriate action
fireworks
to open fire; to start shooting / to light the flame (for cooking)
lit. like a moth flying into the fire (idiom); fig. to choose a path to certain destruction
forest fire
raging inferno / blaze
to extinguish a fire / firefighting
to make a fire
the fire of a stove
to quench (a metal workpiece)
battle
wildfire / forest fire
wildfire / (spreading like) wildfire / bush fire / farm fire (for clearing fields)
will-o'-the-wisp / jack-o'-lantern
flame / open fire
firework
to clear internal heat (Chinese Medicine)
annealing (metallurgy)
the moth flies into the flame / fatal attraction
to make fire
relieve inflammation or internal heat
small flame (when cooking, simmering etc)
campfire
to play with fire
to go too far; to go overboard (in words or actions) / over the top; excessive / burned
lit. to see sth as clearly as one sees a blazing fire (idiom) / fig. to grasp the situation thoroughly
to temper (iron) / to flare back / flareback (in a gas burner) / (of an engine) to backfire
a low fire (for roasting)
the show must go on (idiom)
to decrease internal heat (Chinese medicine)
to shoot flames / to erupt (of volcanoes) / flaming (of flowers)
incense burning in front of a temple / burning joss sticks
to get angry
otherworldly; detached from the mundane concerns of ordinary life
flaming fire / flames
light of firefly / fairy light
to catch fire / to cook / to get angry

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