IDENTITY
火huǒfire
HSK 1Top 180
CORE MEANING
fire
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.fireHSK2
- 2.to get angry (colloquial)HSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 火fire radical (huǒ)
- strokes
- 4
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱八人
- flames split left and right
- flame base
USAGE
Common words
火车huǒchētrain
火锅huǒguōhot pot
着火zháohuǒto catch fire
Graded examples
我们坐火车去北京。Wǒmen zuò huǒchē qù Běijīng.HSK1
We go to Beijing by train.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
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POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
A person (人) with flames rising on both sides — fire.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #180
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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