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.

• 蒸zhēng🔊

  to evaporate

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 煲bāo🔊

  to cook slowly over a low flame

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 煞shā🔊

  to terminate

  13 strokes

• 㷖zhào🔊

  old variant of 照[zhao4]

  13 strokes

• 煁chén🔊

  brazier

  13 strokes

• 煃kuǐ🔊

  fiery

  13 strokes

• 煅duàn🔊

  to calcine

  13 strokes

• 煆xiā🔊

  a raging fire

  13 strokes

• 炼liàn🔊

  variant of 鏈|链[lian4], chain

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 煊xuān🔊

  variant of 暄[xuan1]

  13 strokes

• 煋xīng🔊

  (literary) (of a fire) fierce; intense; blazing

  13 strokes

• 煌huáng🔊

  brilliant

  13 strokes

• 煍jiǎo🔊

  to color by smoke

  13 strokes

• 煏bì🔊

  (dialect) to dry by a fire

  13 strokes

• 炜wěi🔊

  glowing

  13 strokes

• 煓tuān🔊

  (literary) (of a fire) lively

  13 strokes

• 煜yù🔊

  brilliant

  13 strokes

• 煝mèi🔊

  be radiant

  13 strokes

• 煟wèi🔊

  radiance of fire

  13 strokes

• 煠yè🔊

  to fry in fat or oil

  13 strokes

• 茕qióng🔊

  alone

  13 strokes

• 煦xù🔊

  balmy

  13 strokes

• 煨wēi🔊

  to simmer

  13 strokes

• 炀yáng🔊

  molten

  13 strokes

• 煰zào🔊

  dry (old variant of 燥[zao4])

  13 strokes

• 煳hú🔊

  burnt

  13 strokes

• 煴yùn🔊

  variant of 熨[yun4]

  13 strokes

• 煸biān🔊

  to stir-fry before broiling or stewing

  13 strokes

• 煺tuì🔊

  to pluck poultry or depilate pigs using hot water

  13 strokes

• 熊xióng🔊

  bear

  HSK 5

  14 strokes

• 熬áo🔊

  to cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct

  HSK 7

  14 strokes

• 熏xūn🔊

  to smoke

  HSK 7

  14 strokes

• 熄xī🔊

  to extinguish

  14 strokes

• 熙xī🔊

  variant of 熙[xi1]

  14 strokes

• 煕xī🔊

  old variant of 熙

  14 strokes

• 煻táng🔊

  to warm

  14 strokes

• 煽shān🔊

  to fan into a flame

  14 strokes

• 熀huǎng🔊

  bright

  14 strokes

• 熁xié🔊

  (meaning uncertain)

  14 strokes

• 熇kǎo🔊

  dry

  14 strokes

• 荧yíng🔊

  a glimmer

  14 strokes

• 熔róng🔊

  to smelt

  14 strokes

• 炝qiàng🔊

  to briefly boil (a vegetable etc), then dress with soy sauce, oil, vinegar etc

  14 strokes

• 熘liū🔊

  quick-fry

  14 strokes

• 熥tēng🔊

  to heat up (cooked food) by baking or steaming

  14 strokes

• 烨yè🔊

  variant of 燁|烨[ye4]

  14 strokes

• 热rè🔊

  to warm up

  HSK 1

  15 strokes

• 熟shú🔊

  ripe; mature

  HSK 2

  15 strokes