fire

Origin & mnemonic

The fire radical 火 derives from a pictograph of flames in oracle-bone and seal script. The leaping flames are depicted by three horizontal strokes with a central vertical stroke forming the stem.

Mnemonic: Three stacked horizontal strokes around a central vertical line mimic the shape of dancing flames.

• 炲tái🔊

  variant of 炱[tai2]

  9 strokes

• 炴yǎng🔊

  firelight; blaze

  9 strokes

• 炷zhù🔊

  wick of an oil lamp

  9 strokes

• 炻shí🔊

  stoneware

  9 strokes

• 炼liàn🔊

  variant of 鏈|链[lian4], chain

  HSK 7

  9 strokes

• 炽chì🔊

  to burn

  9 strokes

• 炾huǎng🔊

  bright and spacious

  9 strokes

• 烀hū🔊

  to cook in a small quantity of water

  9 strokes

• 烁shuò🔊

  bright

  9 strokes

• 烃tīng🔊

  hydrocarbon

  9 strokes

• 热rè🔊

  to warm up

  HSK 1

  10 strokes

• 烧shāo🔊

  to burn

  HSK 4

  10 strokes

• 烟yān🔊

  tobacco (variant of 煙|烟[yan1])

  HSK 3

  10 strokes

• 烤kǎo🔊

  to roast; to grill; to broil; to bake; to toast (bread)

  HSK 7

  10 strokes

• 烦fán🔊

  to feel vexed

  HSK 4

  10 strokes

• 烫tàng🔊

  to scald

  HSK 7

  10 strokes

• 乌wū🔊

  crow

  10 strokes

• 烩huì🔊

  to braise

  10 strokes

• 烙lào🔊

  to brand

  10 strokes

• 烈liè🔊

  ardent

  10 strokes

• 烘hōng🔊

  to bake

  10 strokes

• 㶶nóng🔊

  (dialect) to burn

  10 strokes

• 㶸xié🔊

  (precise meaning unknown, relates to iron)

  10 strokes

• 烉huàn🔊

  old variant of 煥|焕[huan4]

  10 strokes

• 烊yáng🔊

  molten

  10 strokes

• 烋xiāo🔊

  to boil or fumigate

  10 strokes

• 烓wēi🔊

  three-cornered stove

  10 strokes

• 烔tóng🔊

  hot

  10 strokes

• 烕miè🔊

  old variant of 滅|灭[mie4]

  10 strokes

• 烗kài🔊

  to burn

  10 strokes

• 烛zhú🔊

  candle

  10 strokes

• 烜xuǎn🔊

  brilliant

  10 strokes

• 烝zhēng🔊

  multitudinous

  10 strokes

• 烨yè🔊

  variant of 燁|烨[ye4]

  10 strokes

• 烬jìn🔊

  (bound form) cinders; ashes

  10 strokes

• 烶tǐng🔊

  (literary) in flames

  10 strokes

• 𬊈xún🔊

  warm up (food)

  10 strokes

• 焊hàn🔊

  variant of 焊[han4]

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 焗jú🔊

  (dialect) to cook in salt or sand, inside a sealed pot

  11 strokes

• 焉yān🔊

  where

  11 strokes

• 烯xī🔊

  alkene

  11 strokes

• 烳pǔ🔊

  to travel by the light of torch

  11 strokes

• 烷wán🔊

  alkane

  11 strokes

• 烹pēng🔊

  to boil; to brew (tea)

  11 strokes

• 烺lǎng🔊

  blaze

  11 strokes

• 烽fēng🔊

  beacon fire

  11 strokes

• 焃hè🔊

  fiery

  11 strokes

• 焄xūn🔊

  fumes from sacrifice

  11 strokes