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.

• 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