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Definition
- fire
- meaning component (fire, light, hot, high temperature...)
- radical (Kang Xi 86)
- firearm
- ammunition
- anger
- to get angry
- temper
- urgently
- pressing
火 as a meaning component
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Compounds (174)
to be annoyed; to trouble (someone to do something); to bother; (to feel) vexed; confusing; to be irritated; to be tired (of); superfluous; edgy
soft; mushy; well-cooked and soft; to rot; to decompose; rotten; worn out; chaotic; messy; utterly; thoroughly; crappy; bad
to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head
smoke; cigarette or pipe tobacco; mist; vapour; tobacco plant; (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke
to explode; to burst; to crackle; to blow (up); to pop; to erupt; to quick fry; to quick boil; to appear unexpectedly
quick; alert; intelligence; mind; clever; sharp; consciousness; efficacious; effective; to come true; coffin; (departed) soul; spirit; spiritual world; fairy; elf; sprite
to put out; to extinguish; to go out (of a fire etc); to turn off; to exterminate; to destroy; to wipe out; to drown
to scald; (scalding) hot; to burn (by scalding); to blanch (cooking); to heat (something) up in hot water; to perm; to iron
to burn; to ignite; to light; (fig.) to spark off (hopes); to start (debate); to raise (hopes)
mess; board; meals; companion; partner; mate; group; crowd; band; classifier (for groups of people); measure word; partnership; company; to join; to combine; together
to extinguish; to put out (fire); to quench; to stop burning; to go out (of fire, lamp etc); to come to an end; to wither away; to die out; Taiwan pr. [xi2]
a glimmer; glimmering; twinkling; fluorescence; phosphorescence; perplexed; dazzled and confused; planet Mars (arch.)
to stir-fry then cook with sauce and water; to boil food briefly then dress with soy etc; to choke; to irritate (throat etc)
used in Japanese names with phonetic value hatake, bata etc; dry field (i.e. not paddy field)
copious smoke produced by smoldering firewood; half alight; to use the smoke of burning wormwood etc to repel insects
to extinguish a burning object; to singe sth with a smoldering object (e.g. burn a hole in one's trousers with a cigarette); to stir-fry; to pour a mixture of hot oil and flavorings over food
Related words (273)
fire breathing; to breathe fire; to spit fire; to shoot flames; to erupt (of volcanoes); flaming (of flowers)
slow fire; gentle heat; low heat; small flame (when cooking, simmering etc); soft fire; tepid fire
to ignite; to light a fire; to agitate; to start an engine; ignition; (fig.) to stir up trouble
(of fire, lamp etc) to go out; to put out (fire); (fig.) to die down; (of a vehicle) to stall
excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM); the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself
fire beacon tower (used in frontier regions in former times to relay information about the enemy, using smoke by day and fire at night)
suction cup (used in Chinese medicine to draw the blood and qi 氣|气); detachable suction chimney to make a stove draw
paper hot pot (hot pot using a single-use pot made of Japanese washi paper with a special coating to prevent burning and leaking, used for cooking at the dining table)
cassowary (genus Casuarius), large flightless bird native to northeastern Australia and New Guinea
to shoot accidentally while polishing a gun; (fig.) a minor incident that sparks a war
possessed by the Devil; spellbound; to be addicted to; asborbed (in); utterly devoted (to); to go overboard; (Buddhism, Taoism) to misguidedly focus on hallucinations that arise during meditation; to be obsessed (with)
abbr. for 野火燒不盡,春風吹又生|野火烧不尽,春风吹又生[ye3 huo3 shao1 bu4 jin4 , chun1 feng1 chui1 you4 sheng1]
(lit.) not eating the food of common mortals; (fig.) placing oneself above the common populace
the new boss cracks the whip three times; a new broom sweeps clean; (fig.) vigorous new policies
(lit.) water from afar quenches not fire; fig. urgent need; a slow remedy does not address the current emergency
Idioms (34)
to add oil to the fire (idiom); fig. to aggravate a situation; to enrage people and make matters worse
to pour oil on the fire (idiom); fig. to aggravate a situation; to enrage people and make matters worse
(lit.) the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation; extreme emergency
(lit.) to put a fire under a pile of firewood (idiom); (fig.) hidden danger; imminent danger
(lit.) as hurried as a shooting star (idiom); requiring immediate action; extremely urgent
stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt; (fig.) to suffer on account of one's own meddling
fire of war everywhere (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war (idiom); flames of war; fires of war
to carry on intimately with (idiom); ardent relationship (esp. between lovers); billing and cooing
(lit.) to carry firewood to put out a fire (idiom); fig. to make a problem worse by inappropriate action
(lit.) the stove fire has turned bright green (allusion to Daoist alchemy) (idiom); (fig.) (of an art, a technique etc) brought to the point of perfection
(lit.) intense fire to dry wood (idiom); inferno in a woodpile; (fig.) consuming passion between lovers
to play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences; to get one's fingers burnt
to tell fox ghost stories around a bonfire and incite rebellion; an uprising is afoot (idiom)
(lit.) the flame of a burning piece of firewood passes on to the rest (idiom); (fig.) (of knowledge, skill etc) to be passed on from teachers to students, one generation to another
(lit.) to jump out of a fire pit (idiom); to escape from a living hell; to free oneself from a life of torture
to watch the fires burning across the river; to delay entering the fray until all others have been exhausted by fighting amongst themselves (idiom)
(lit.) like a moth flying into the fire (idiom); fig. to choose a path to certain destruction
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