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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 catch fire
HSK 4
to ignite / to light a fire / to agitate / to start an engine / ignition / fig. to stir up trouble
HSK 7-9
smoke and fire / cooked food / (literary) beacon fire / (literary) descendants; posterity
HSK 7-9
to catch fire / to ignite / to detonate / to get angry
HSK 7-9
prosperous
HSK 7-9
fireworks
HSK 7-9
to get angry / to suffer from excessive internal heat (TCM)
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 make a fire; to light a fire
backfire (firefighting)
annealing (metallurgy)
phosphorescence
to sow discord / to provoke
to set on fire / to commit arson / to create a disturbance
low heat (cooking)
(literary) to light a fire
to put out a fire / firefighting
flame / open fire
to catch fire; to be on fire
a conflict arises close to home (idiom)
to cease fire / ceasefire
artillery barrage / gunfire
lit. as hurried as a shooting star (idiom); requiring immediate action / extremely urgent
fireworks
rage / fury / hot anger
to extinguish a fire / firefighting
to go off accidentally / to catch fire
raging inferno / blaze
to catch fire / to cook / to get angry
campfire
lights
the flames of war
weapons and ammunition / munitions / arms
conflagration; large fire / CL: 場|场
annoyed; riled; vexed
lust
to go too far; to go overboard (in words or actions) / over the top; excessive / burned
sacred fire; (esp.) the Olympic flame
to open fire; to start shooting / to light the flame (for cooking)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *火* | 火* | *火
surname Huo
bustling / energetic
fireball; ball of fire
the sun shines fiercely
to set on fire / to commit arson
to temper (iron) / to flare back / flareback (in a gas burner) / (of an engine) to backfire
the fire of a stove
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)
otherworldly; detached from the mundane concerns of ordinary life
the moth flies into the flame / fatal attraction
(of a city etc) ablaze with lights
to use the tip of another person’s lit cigarette to light one's own
to shoot accidentally while polishing a gun / (fig.) a minor incident that sparks a war
to warm oneself facing the fire
to watch the fires burning across the river / to delay entering the fray until all others have been exhausted by fighting amongst themselves (idiom)
(dialect) (fig.) to fan the flames; to fuel sb's anger
to drill wood to make fire
(of a newly appointed official) to make bold changes on assuming office (idiom)
candle flame
penetrating (vision)
excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM) / the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself
lit. to see sth as clearly as one sees a blazing fire (idiom) / fig. to grasp the situation thoroughly
pitch dark
light of firefly / fairy light
to kill and burn (idiom); murder and arson
fire and ice / combination of sharply contrasting or incompatible elements
spark / meteor trail (mostly used in expressions like 急如星火)
relieve inflammation or internal heat
to get angry / to burn with rage
to make fire
to exchange fire; to engage in a firefight / (fig.) to clash verbally; to exchange sharp criticism
the Qin burning of the books in 212 BC
to play with fire
incense burning in front of a temple / burning joss sticks
wildfire / forest fire
to get angry
plant material used as fuel (firewood, straw, leaves etc)
to kindle / to light a fire
fire beacon (to give alarm)
will-o'-the-wisp / jack-o'-lantern
to reduce internal heat (TCM)
bonfire
to stir up trouble in secret / to instigate
irascibility / irritability / (TCM) inflammation of the liver
to stir up the fire / fig. to provoke and offend people / to ruffle feathers
to shoot flames / to erupt (of volcanoes) / flaming (of flowers)
brisk heat (cooking) / (TCM) internal heat generated by anxiety
small flame (when cooking, simmering etc)
refractory (material) / fire-resistant
firework
to borrow a light (for a cigarette)
to warm oneself at a fire
to quench (a metal workpiece)
to quench / to temper / to harden by quenching
flaming fire / flames
festival entertainment (lion dance, dragon lantern etc)
lit. to carry firewood to put out a fire (idiom); fig. to make a problem worse by inappropriate action
to make a fire

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