水火 shuǐ huǒ

1. shuǐ huǒ noun water and fire
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'shuǐ-huǒ' 水火 n 1; NCCED '水火' 1)
2. shuǐ huǒ noun extreme misery
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'shuǐ-huǒ' 水火 n 3; NCCED '水火' 2)
3. shuǐ huǒ phrase urine and stool
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (NCCED '水火' 3)
4. shuǐ huǒ noun flood and fire disasters
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'shuǐ-huǒ' 水火 n 2)
5. shuǐ huǒ noun opposites
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Referring to opposites that are incompatible with each other (ABC 'shuǐ-huǒ' 水火 n 4; NCCED '水火' 1)
6. shuǐ huǒ noun necessities for living
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Referring to opposites that are incompatible with each other (ABC 'shuǐ-huǒ' 水火 n 5)

Contained in

• 水火不容 completely incompatible; as incompatible as fire and water
• 水火无情(水火無情) Fire and water have no mercy; forces of nature beyond human control; implacable fate

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• 《衛靈公第十五》 Commentary on Wei Ling Gong XV Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹四書章句集注 — count: 6
• 第六十二回 Chapter 62 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
• 第八回 Chapter 8 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 5
• 《盡心章句上》 Commentary on Jin Xin I Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹四書章句集注 — count: 5
• 第五十一回 Chapter 51 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 4
• 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 4
• 卷五十六 Scroll 56 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 4
• 卷19　志第14 天文上 Volume 19 Treatises 14: Astronomy 1 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 4
• 盡心上 Jin Xin I Mencius 孟子 — count: 4
• 卷二十七下之上 五行志 Volume 27d: Treatise on the Five Elements 4 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 4

Collocations

• 木水火 (木水火) 乃澄列金木水火土之性 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷二十　泰族訓 Chapter 20: superior Lineage — count: 23
• 水火棍 (水火棍) 拿了水火棍 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第八回 Chapter 8 — count: 18
• 赴水火 (赴水火) 赴水火而不還踵乎 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十五　兵略訓 Chapter 15: Military Planning — count: 10
• 水火沴 (水火沴) 時則有金木水火沴土 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十七下之上 五行志 Volume 27d: Treatise on the Five Elements 4 — count: 10
• 水火之中 (水火之中) 民以為將拯己於水火之中也 — Mencius 孟子, 梁惠王下 King Hui of Liang II — count: 8
• 水火金 (水火金) 水火金木土也 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷八　本經訓 Chapter 8: Base Warp — count: 7
• 蹈水火 (蹈水火) 不避蹈水火 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 忠孝第五十一 Chapter 51: Loyalty and Filial Piety — count: 6
• 占水火 (占水火) 占水火而妄誶 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷五十九 張衡列傳 Volume 59: Biography of Zhang Heng — count: 6
• 水火土 (水火土) 乃澄列金木水火土之性 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷二十　泰族訓 Chapter 20: superior Lineage — count: 6
• 水火守 (水火守) 皆以水火守之 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 夏官司馬 第四 4. Offices of Summer and Minister of War — count: 5