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

• 防火 to protect against fire
• 火炮(火砲) cannon; gun; artillery
• 火星 Mars
• 灭火器(滅火器) fire extinguisher
• 点鬼火(點鬼火) to stir up trouble in secret; to instigate
• 无明火(無明火) fury
• 运载火箭(運載火箭) carrier rocket
• 降火 to decrease internal heat
• 火鸟(火鳥) phoenix
• 清火 to clear internal heat
• 火把节(火把節) Torch Festival
• 阴虚火旺(陰虛火旺) an excess of heat caused by a deficiency in Yin energy
• 一团火(一團火) fireball
• 玩火 to play with fire
• 野火 wildfire; (spreading like) wildfire; bush fire; farm fire (for clearing fields)
• 烧火(燒火) to light a fire for cooking
• 火成 igneous (geology); formed by fire; volcanic (rock)
• 烽火 fire beacon
• 积薪厝火(積薪厝火) to add fuel to the flames
• 火刑 execution by fire; burning at the stake
• 火地群岛(火地群島) Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia
• 万家灯火(萬家燈火) (of a city etc) ablaze with lights
• 引火柴 kindling
• 低平火山口 maar
• 火流星 bolide; fireball
• 火灾(火災) a fire
• 火苗 a spark
• 战火纷飞(戰火紛飛) fire of war everywhere; enveloped in the flames of war
• 灯火(燈火) lights; a lamp
• 炉火纯青(爐火純青) the stove fire has turned bright green (allusion to Daoist alchemy)
• 拜火教 Zoroastrianism
• 跳出火坑 to jump out of a fire pit; to escape from a living hell; to free oneself from a life of torture
• 直通火车(直通火車) through train
• 刀耕火种(刀耕火種) slash and burn
• 火烧火燎(火燒火燎) restless with anxiety; unbearably hot and anxious
• 炬火 a torch
• 火湖 burning lake; lake of burning sulfur; inferno (in Christian mythology)
• 火药味(火藥味) smell of gunpowder; () combative tone; belligerence
• 停火线(停火線) cease-fire line
• 火控 fire control (gunnery)
• 着火点(著火點) ignition point (temperature); combustion point
• 虚火(虛火) excess of internal heat due to poor general condition ; the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself
• 火车(火車) train ; armoured wagon
• 跳出釜底进火坑(跳出釜底進火坑) out of the frying pan into the fire
• 来火(來火) to get angry
• 火炉(火爐) stove
• 打火机(打火機) a lighter; a cigarette lighter
• 火光 firelight; flame

Also contained in

防火墙 、 喀拉喀托火山 、 火影忍者

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 曰火 (曰火) 二曰火 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 洪範 Zhou Shu - Great Plan — 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
• 火曰 (火曰) 火曰炎上 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 洪範 Zhou Shu - Great Plan — count: 3
• 流火 (流火) 七月流火 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧豳‧七月 Lessons from the states - Odes of Cao - Qi Yue — 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