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.

• 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

• 𬉼ǒu🔊

  copious smoke produced by smoldering firewood

  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

• 烧shāo🔊

  to burn

  HSK 4

  16 strokes

• 灯dēng🔊

  lamp

  HSK 2

  16 strokes

• 烫tàng🔊

  to scald

  HSK 7

  16 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

• 炽chì🔊

  to burn

  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

• 燎liáo🔊

  to burn

  16 strokes

• 燏yù🔊

  radiance of fire

  16 strokes

• 燔fán🔊

  burn

  16 strokes

• 燕yàn🔊

  variant of 燕[yan4]

  16 strokes

• 𬊈xún🔊

  warm up (food)

  16 strokes

• 燗làn🔊

  old variant of 爛|烂[lan4]

  16 strokes

• 燚yì🔊

  to blaze

  16 strokes

• 燠yù🔊

  warm

  16 strokes

• 燧suì🔊

  (bound form) material or tool used to light a fire by means of friction or the sun's rays

  16 strokes

• 烩huì🔊

  to braise

  17 strokes

• 灿càn🔊

  glorious

  17 strokes

• 燥zào🔊

  dry; parched

  17 strokes

• 燨xī🔊

  fire

  17 strokes

• 烛zhú🔊

  candle

  17 strokes

• 燮xiè🔊

  to blend

  17 strokes

• 㶶nóng🔊

  (dialect) to burn

  17 strokes

• 燹xiǎn🔊

  conflagration

  18 strokes

• 烬jìn🔊

  (bound form) cinders; ashes

  18 strokes

• 燿yào🔊

  brilliant

  18 strokes

• 爇ruò🔊

  burn

  18 strokes

• 爌kuàng🔊

  old variant of 曠|旷[kuang4]

  18 strokes

• 爆bào🔊

  to explode; to burst

  HSK 6

  19 strokes

• 爊āo🔊

  variant of 熬[ao1]

  19 strokes