火 huǒ

1. huǒ noun fire; flame
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Fire
   Notes: For example, in literary Chinese, 遠水不救近火 'distant water cannot extinguish a nearby fire'from Han Feizi's Shuo Lin Shang (DCP 'Y448'; GHC '火' 1; Kroll 2015 '火' 1, p. 179; Sun 2006, loc. 1377; Unihan '火').
2. huǒ verb to start a fire; to burn
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Fire
   Notes: In the sense of 烧 (GHC '火' 5; Kroll 2015 '火' 1a, p. 179; Unihan '火')
3. huǒ noun Kangxi radical 86
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
4. huǒ noun anger; rage
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 怒气 (GHC '火' 9; Sun 2006, loc. 1358; Unihan '火')
5. huǒ noun fire element
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: One of the 五行 'five elements' of traditional Chinese thought (Tzu Chuang 2012, p. 92; GHC '火' 13; Kroll 2015 '火' 2, p. 179; Sun 2006, loc. 1377)
6. huǒ proper noun Antares
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: The fire star 火星 (GHC '火' 12; Kroll 2015 '火' 3, p. 179)
7. huǒ noun radiance
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 光芒 (GHC '火' 2)
8. huǒ noun lightning
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 闪电 (GHC '火' 3)
9. huǒ noun a torch
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (GHC '火' 4)
10. huǒ adjective red
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: The color of fire (GHC '火' 6)
11. huǒ adjective urgent
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 急迫 (GHC '火' 7)
12. huǒ noun a cause of disease
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Subdomain: Chinese Medicine
    Notes: In the sense of 病因 (GHC '火' 8)
13. huǒ noun huo
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: A military unit in ancient China (GHC '火' 10)
14. huǒ noun companion; comrade
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 同伴 (GHC '火' 11)
15. huǒ proper noun Huo
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (GHC '火' 14)

Contained in

• 火漆 sealing wax
• 火药味(火藥味) smell of gunpowder; () combative tone; belligerence
• 火蜥蜴 fire lizard; fire-bellied salamander (Cynops orientalis David)
• 急如星火 as hurried as a shooting star; requiring immediate action; extremely urgent
• 火炬手 torchbearer; athlete carrying Olympic flame
• 灯火通明(燈火通明) brightly lit
• 停火 cease fire
• 浴火重生 to rise from the ashes ; to start again
• 火发(火發) an outbreak of fire
• 火炎焱燚 hot (i.e. popular)
• 火湖 burning lake; lake of burning sulfur; inferno (in Christian mythology)
• 火上加油 to add oil to the fire; to aggravate a situation; to enrage people and make matters worse
• 交叉火力 crossfire
• 火德星君 spirit of the planet Mars
• 大屯火山 Mt Tatun, volcanic area to the north of Taipei
• 野火 wildfire; (spreading like) wildfire; bush fire; farm fire (for clearing fields)
• 火浣布 asbestos cloth
• 不到火候不揭锅(不到火候不揭鍋) don't act until the time is ripe
• 钻木出火(鑽木出火) to drill wood to make fire
• 喷火器(噴火器) flamethrower
• 烽火四起 the fire of war in all four directions; the confusion of war
• 火种(火種) tinder; source of a fire; inflammable material; (fig.) spark (of a revolution etc)
• 骄阳似火(驕陽似火) the sun shines fiercely
• 火鸡(火雞) turkey
• 火烧云(火燒雲) nuée ardente; hot cloud of volcanic ash
• 休眠火山 dormant volcano
• 电火花(電火花) electric spark
• 十万火急(十萬火急) most urgent; posthaste; express
• 玩火自焚 to play with fire and get burnt; to play with evil and suffer the consequences
• 打火机(打火機) a lighter; a cigarette lighter
• 火山碎屑流 pyroclastic flow
• 开火(開火) to open fire
• 火山爆发(火山爆發) volcanic eruption
• 心头火起(心頭火起) to flare up in anger
• 冒火 to get angry; to burn with rage
• 火烈鸟(火烈鳥) flamingo
• 火炕 a heated brick bed
• 环太平洋火山带(環太平洋火山帶) Ring of Fire (circum-Pacific seismic belt)
• 热火朝天(熱火朝天) in full swing; (in a) frenzy; buzzing with activity
• 炉火(爐火) the fire of a stove
• 火箭筒 bazooka; rocket launcher
• 乘火打劫 to take advantage of somebody's misfortune; to loot
• 国家点火设施(國家點火設施) National Ignition Facility (NIF)
• 火成 igneous (geology); formed by fire; volcanic (rock)
• 低平火山口 maar
• 拨火棍(撥火棍) poker

Also contained in

火奴鲁鲁 、 火星哥 、 火狐 、 克孜尔尕哈烽火台 、 喀拉喀托火山

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• 卷六十三 志第十六 五行二上 Volume 63 Treatises 16: Five Elements 2a History of Song 宋史 — count: 185
• 卷二十九 志第五 五行二 Volume 29 Treatises 5: Five Elements 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 174
• 《火部》 Huǒ Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 150
• 卷三十四　　　　志第二十四　　五行一 Volume 34 Treatises 28: Five Elements 1 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 60
• 卷105之三 天象志一之三 Volume 105c Treatise 1: Celestial Phenomena 3 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 59
• 卷二十七上 五行志 Volume 27a: Treatise on the Five Elements 1 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 57
• 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 51
• 第四十一回 Chapter 41 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 46
• 卷105之四 天象志一之四 Volume 105d Treatise 1: Celestial Phenomena 4 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 44
• 卷二十七 志第十七 五行上 Volume 27 Treatises 17: Five Elements Part One Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 39

Collocations

• 庙火 (廟火) 大廟火 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曾子問》 The Questions of Zeng-zi — count: 5
• 鹑火 (鶉火) 鶉火中 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 5
• 火见 (火見) 火見而致用 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 4
• 火烈 (火烈) 火烈具舉 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧鄭‧大叔于田 Lessons from the states - Odes of Zheng - Da Shu Yu Tian — count: 4
• 火中 (火中) 火中成軍 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 4
• 曰火 (曰火) 二曰火 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 洪範 Zhou Shu - Great Plan — count: 4
• 修火 (修火) 然後修火之利 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《禮運》 Ceremonial Usages; their Origins, Development, and Intention — count: 4
• 火曰 (火曰) 火曰炎上 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 洪範 Zhou Shu - Great Plan — count: 3
• 言火 (言火) 或言火 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3
• 火禁 (火禁) 春秋以木鐸修火禁 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰 第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 3