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.

• 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

• 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

• 熘liū🔊

  quick-fry

  14 strokes

• 熥tēng🔊

  to heat up (cooked food) by baking or steaming

  14 strokes

• 熟shú🔊

  ripe; mature

  HSK 2

  15 strokes

• 熨yùn🔊

  an iron

  15 strokes

• 㷭fēng🔊

  old variant of 烽[feng1]

  15 strokes

• 熛biāo🔊

  blaze

  15 strokes

• 熜cōng🔊

  chimney (old)

  15 strokes

• 熠yì🔊

  to glow

  15 strokes

• 熤yì🔊

  (person)

  15 strokes

• 熯hàn🔊

  to dry with fire

  15 strokes

• 颎jiǒng🔊

  blaze

  15 strokes

• 熳màn🔊

  used in 爛熳|烂熳[lan4 man4]

  15 strokes

• 熴kūn🔊

  variant of 焜[kun1]

  15 strokes

• 熵shāng🔊

  entropy (character created in 1923)

  15 strokes

• 熿huáng🔊

  brilliant

  15 strokes

• 营yíng🔊

  camp

  16 strokes

• 燃rán🔊

  to burn

  16 strokes

• 熸jiān🔊

  to extinguish (of fire)

  16 strokes

• 熹xī🔊

  bright

  16 strokes

• 燂qián🔊

  to heat

  16 strokes

• 燇jùn🔊

  old variant of 焌[jun4]

  16 strokes

• 燊shēn🔊

  brisk

  16 strokes

• 燋jiāo🔊

  to cauterize

  16 strokes