HSK 4 · Nature

火 huǒ “fire” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 火 means

  1. fire
  2. urgent
  3. ammunition
  4. fiery or flaming
  5. internal heat (Chinese medicine)
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • hot (popular)

How to say 火

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale火huǒ3rd tone, dipping

火 in a sentence

  1. 天气很冷，我们生起了火。

    Tiānqì hěn lěng, wǒmen shēngqǐ le huǒ.

    It was cold, so we lit a fire.

    Sentence #1883113 from Tatoeba

  2. 动物怕火。

    Dòngwù pà huǒ.

    Animals are afraid of fire.

    Sentence #512178 from Tatoeba

  3. 着火了！

    Zháohuǒ le!

    Fire!

    Sentence #1958702 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 火 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 火 (huǒ) with each of its parts in a different colour
火huǒfire
  • 丷eight form of 八 · bā
  • 人person · rén

Memory aidDrawn from rising flames.

How to write 火

火 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

火 (huǒ) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 火 (huǒ). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 火

Words with 火

火车huǒchē · train火车站huǒchēzhàn · train station着火zháohuǒ · to catch fire火柴huǒchái · match (for lighting fire)恼火nǎohuǒ · annoyed火箭huǒjiàn · rocket火药huǒyào · gunpowder火焰huǒyàn · flame涮火锅shuànhuǒguō · to eat hotpot

More words: Nature, Animals & Weather

开花kāihuā · to bloom大熊猫dàxióngmāo · giant panda地球dìqiú · the earth海洋hǎiyáng · ocean景色jǐngsè · scenery空气kōngqì · air气候qìhòu · climate森林sēnlín · forest

FAQs

火 (huǒ) means “fire” or “urgent”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it huǒ: huǒ with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 火 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huo with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 火 from the suggestions. Typing huo into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
火 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.