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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
to catch fire
HSK 4
smoke and fire / cooked food / (literary) beacon fire / (literary) descendants; posterity
HSK 7-9
to ignite / to light a fire / to agitate / to start an engine / ignition / fig. to stir up trouble
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
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
fireworks
HSK 7-9
prosperous
HSK 7-9
lights
to temper (iron) / to flare back / flareback (in a gas burner) / (of an engine) to backfire
festival entertainment (lion dance, dragon lantern etc)
brisk heat (cooking) / (TCM) internal heat generated by anxiety
annealing (metallurgy)
to exchange fire; to engage in a firefight / (fig.) to clash verbally; to exchange sharp criticism
to warm oneself at a fire
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *火* | 火* | *火
surname Huo
(idiom) to fan the flames / to incite people / to stir up trouble
fireworks
stove / kitchen
(of a newly appointed official) to make bold changes on assuming office (idiom)
spark / meteor trail (mostly used in expressions like 急如星火)
raging inferno / blaze
to go off accidentally / to catch fire
fire and ice / combination of sharply contrasting or incompatible elements
the flames of war
to shoot flames / to erupt (of volcanoes) / flaming (of flowers)
weapons and ammunition / munitions / arms
to protect against fire
to stir up the fire / fig. to provoke and offend people / to ruffle feathers
to play with fire
rage / fury / hot anger
lust
wildfire / forest fire
to extinguish a fire / firefighting
fire beacon (to give alarm)
sacred fire; (esp.) the Olympic flame
to quench / to temper / to harden by quenching
plant material used as fuel (firewood, straw, leaves etc)
to make fire
to light a fire for cooking
candle flame
incense burning in front of a temple / burning joss sticks
light of firefly / fairy light
to catch fire; to be on fire
to make a fire; to light a fire
to catch fire / to cook / to get angry
to put out a fire / firefighting
flame / open fire
conflagration; large fire / CL: 場|场
wildfire / (spreading like) wildfire / bush fire / farm fire (for clearing fields)
a single spark (idiom); an insignificant cause can have a massive effect
to set on fire / to commit arson
to kindle / to light a fire
the fire of a stove
(of sales, TV show ratings etc) lukewarm / moderate / so-so / (of a person) calm / unruffled
to open fire; to start shooting / to light the flame (for cooking)
to go too far; to go overboard (in words or actions) / over the top; excessive / burned
relieve inflammation or internal heat
excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM) / the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself
campfire
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)
the sun shines fiercely
to set on fire / to commit arson / to create a disturbance
fiery
to cease fire / ceasefire
artillery barrage / gunfire
(of a city etc) ablaze with lights
small flame (when cooking, simmering etc)
refractory (material) / fire-resistant
(coll.) matches (old)
to watch the fires burning across the river / to delay entering the fray until all others have been exhausted by fighting amongst themselves (idiom)
the truth will come out eventually; a secret can't be kept forever
lit. to see sth as clearly as one sees a blazing fire (idiom) / fig. to grasp the situation thoroughly
to get angry / to burn with rage
a conflict arises close to home (idiom)
pitch dark
low heat (cooking)
irascibility / irritability / (TCM) inflammation of the liver
to get angry
flaming fire / flames
phosphorescence
a low fire (for roasting)
to borrow a light (for a cigarette)
lit. like a moth flying into the fire (idiom); fig. to choose a path to certain destruction
to get angry
will-o'-the-wisp / jack-o'-lantern
to cover a fire (to make it burn slowly)
lit. to carry firewood to put out a fire (idiom); fig. to make a problem worse by inappropriate action
to add fuel to the flames
to use the tip of another person’s lit cigarette to light one's own
to reduce internal heat (TCM)
penetrating (vision)
to catch fire / to ignite
(dialect) (fig.) to fan the flames; to fuel sb's anger
to skyrocket in popularity; to go viral
to clear internal heat (Chinese Medicine)
(literary) to light a fire
to make a fire

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