huǒ
fire
Pictograph of fire.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 火
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
fire | ||
train | ||
rocket | ||
fire (that burns buildings etc) | ||
hotpot |
Component uses
Meaning component in 122 characters (27 verified)
炮 烟 煙 炸 灯 燈 燬 烧 燒 爆 燃 烂 爛 炼 煉 炉 爐 炭 炒 燥 烤 熒 荧 燎 熨 尞 烕 煤 焰 煌 焚 烛 燭 灿 燦 耿 灶 烁 爍 焕 煥 熄 灼 烫 燙 炯 炕 燻 熔 煽 炳 烘 炽 熾 炫 炊 炬 螢 烙 炙 烬 燼 煜 炖 燉 焙 烽 灸 焊 煊 熠 熵 烯 烷 炀 煬 燔 烨 燧 烩 燴 煨 炜 煲 焓 烃 烴 烊 炔 焖 燜 焱 熘 炝 炷 熳 煅 煸 焐 焯 炅 煳 燹 炱 炻 煺 爨 燠 烀 爝 炆 炤 烜 焌 焗 焢 煆 熜 熰 爌 畑 齌
Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[qʷʰ]ˤəjʔ | xwaX | huǒ | fire |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 74.1631% of movies
378th most common character in movies
433rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+706B |
Shuowen | “火,燬也。南方之行,炎而上,象形。” |
Sources
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