(huǒ) - fire; anger; popular, hot in Mandarin

huǒ

Traditional: 火

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Translation

fire; anger; popular, hot

Word origin

A pictograph depicting rising flames, the basic character for fire and a common radical in characters relating to heat and burning.

Origin: pictograph
Root: 火 (a drawing of flames)

Stroke order

火

Examples

旺wàng。

The fire is burning fiercely.

暖nuǎn。

They gathered around the fire to keep warm.

，。

Do not play with fire, it is too dangerous.

。

This song has been very popular lately.

。

He flew into a temper the moment he heard this.

火 (huǒ) means fire, and by extension anger (as in 发火, to lose one's temper) and being popular or hot (as in a song or product that is 很火). It is one of the elemental characters and a frequent radical.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 火.

火车huǒ chētrain

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This word is part of lesson 38.