火

• 灬 (when used as a bottom Chinese radical)

火 (radical 86, 火+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 火 (F), four-corner 9080₀, composition ⿻⿰丿丿人(GJKV) or ⿻丷人(HT))

1. Kangxi radical #86, ⽕.

• Index:Chinese radical/火
• 黑 (黒)

• KangXi: page 665, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18850
• Dae Jaweon: page 1073, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2187, character 1
• Unihan data for U+706B

Historical forms of the character 火
Shang	Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – pictographic representation of a fire.

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mej.

火

1. fire; flame
2. fire (as a disaster); inferno
3. red; fiery; bright; brilliant
4. to burn down
5. light; torch
6. anger; rage; wrath
7. to become enraged
8. angry; furious
9. (traditional Chinese medicine) internal heat
10. firearm; ammunition; weapon
11. war; warfare
12. thriving; brisk
13. urgent; pressing
14. (neologism) to become popular; to go viral
15. (Cantonese) watt (unit of power)

    Synonyms: 瓦特 (wǎtè), 瓦 (wǎ)

    20火數嘅燈膽 / 20火数嘅灯胆 [Cantonese]  ―  20 fo² sou³ ge³ dang¹ daam² [Jyutping]  ―  20-watt lightbulb

16. Short for 火星 (Huǒxīng, “Mars”).

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. fire
2. light
3. burning
4. passion
5. imminently
6. explosive

• Go-on: か (ka, Jōyō)^{←くわ (kwa, historical)}
• Kan-on: か (ka, Jōyō)^{←くわ (kwa, historical)}
• Tō-on: こ (ko)
• Kun: ひ (hi, 火, Jōyō); ふ (fu, 火); ほ (ho, 火, Jōyō, uncommon)

火 (hi, ho, fu, ka): fire.

⟨hi₂⟩ → */pɨ/ → */fɨ/ → /fi/ → /hi/

From Old Japanese,[1] from Proto-Japonic *poy.

Apophonic form of ho (see below), possibly by fusion with emphatic particle い (i). Compare the development of 木 (ko → ki, “tree”).

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ひ​ [híꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [çi]

火 (hiragana ひ, rōmaji hi)

1. term relating to fire:
   1. a flame

      Synonyms: 火気 (kaki), ファイア (faia), 炎 (honō)

   2. cooking fire
   3. a firestarter
   4. sparks
   5. heat

      Synonyms: 火熱 (kanetsu), 熱 (netsu)

   6. a conflagration

      Synonyms: 火災 (kasai), 火事 (kaji)

   7. a signal fire

      Synonym: 狼煙 (noroshi)

2. (by extension) a light
3. a burning passion
4. menstruation

   Synonym: 月経 (gekkei)

• 火 (ひ)を見 (み)るよりも明 (あき)らか (hi o miru yori mo akiraka): "clearer than seeing the fire" → as plain as day, as plain as the nose on one's face, as clear as a bell

/po/ → /fo/ → /ho/

From Old Japanese.[1]

Combining form of hi (see above). Probably the oldest form, possibly cognate with Korean 불 (bul, “fire”).

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ho̞]

火 (hiragana ほ, rōmaji ho)

1. a fire

/pu/ → /fu/

From Old Japanese. Ancient dialect form in eastern Japan,[1] attested in only one source (see derivative term 葦火 (ashifu)).

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝ]

火 (hiragana ふ, rōmaji fu)

1. (regional) a fire

• 葦 (あし)火 (ふ) (ashifu): ancient eastern Japanese dialect reading for 葦火 (ashibi): a fire using dried reeds as kindling or fuel

火（か）: fire in the Wu Xing system

火（か）: Antares in the Scorpio constellation

/kwa/ → /ka/

From Middle Chinese 火 (MC huɑ^X).[1]

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) か​ [káꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠]

火 (hiragana か, rōmaji ka, historical hiragana くわ)

1. a fire
2. one of the five classical elements in traditional Chinese philosophy and medicine: see Wu Xing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
3. under the old Ritsuryō system of ancient Japan, a military grouping, consisting of 10 soldiers: a squad

   Synonym: 分隊 (buntai)

火 (hiragana か, rōmaji Ka, historical hiragana くわ)

1. Tuesday

   Synonyms: 火曜 (Kayō), 火曜日 (Kayōbi)

2. Antares, in the constellation Scorpio

   Synonym: アンタレス (Antaresu)

火 (eumhun 불 화 (bul hwa))

1. fire

火 • (hwa) (hangeul 화)

1. fire
2. anger
3. (as an abbreviation) Tuesday

• (Tuesday): 화요일 (hwayoil, “Tuesday”)

火: Hán Việt readings: hỏa/hoả[1][2][3]
火: Nôm readings: hỏa/hoả[2][3][4][5], ỏa/oả[1]

1. Hán tự form of hoả (“fire”).

• 火患 (hỏa hoạn/hoả hoạn)