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.

• 焆juān🔊

  (literary) bright

  11 strokes

• 焈xī🔊

  old variant of 熙[xi1]

  11 strokes

• 焌jùn🔊

  to set fire to

  11 strokes

• 焐wù🔊

  to warm sth up

  11 strokes

• 焓hán🔊

  enthalpy

  11 strokes

• 焔yàn🔊

  old variant of 焰[yan4]

  11 strokes

• 焕huàn🔊

  (bound form) shining; glowing; lustrous

  11 strokes

• 焖mèn🔊

  to cook in a covered vessel

  11 strokes

• 焘tāo🔊

  used in given names

  11 strokes

• 𤈶yún🔊

  (yellow color)

  11 strokes

• 无wú🔊

  not to have

  HSK 4

  12 strokes

• 煮zhǔ🔊

  variant of 煮[zhu3]

  HSK 6

  12 strokes

• 然rán🔊

  correct

  12 strokes

• 焦jiāo🔊

  burnt

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 焙bèi🔊

  to dry over a fire

  12 strokes

• 焚fén🔊

  to burn

  12 strokes

• 焜kūn🔊

  brilliant

  12 strokes

• 焞tūn🔊

  bright

  12 strokes

• 焟xī🔊

  dry

  12 strokes

• 焠cuì🔊

  to temper (as steel)

  12 strokes

• 焢hōng🔊

  (archaic) angry appearance

  12 strokes

• 焮xìn🔊

  heat

  12 strokes

• 焯chāo🔊

  to blanch; to parboil

  12 strokes

• 焰yàn🔊

  flame

  12 strokes

• 焱yàn🔊

  variant of 焰[yan4]

  12 strokes

• 焴yù🔊

  old variant of 煜[yu4]

  12 strokes

• 焼shāo🔊

  old variant of 燒|烧[shao1]

  12 strokes

• 焿gēng🔊

  variant of 羹[geng1], used in restaurants and night markets in Taiwan

  12 strokes

• 煐yīng🔊

  (used in names)

  12 strokes

• 煚jiǒng🔊

  fire

  12 strokes

• 𬊤chǎn🔊

  to make a fire

  12 strokes

• 照zhào🔊

  according to

  HSK 3

  13 strokes

• 煎jiān🔊

  to pan fry

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 煤méi🔊

  coal

  HSK 5

  13 strokes

• 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

• 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

• 煓tuān🔊

  (literary) (of a fire) lively

  13 strokes