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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order
火-order.gif

[edit] Alternative forms

  • (when used as a bottom Chinese radical)

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Pictogram (象形)

火 火 火 火
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

[edit] Han character

(radical 86 +0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 火 (F), four-corner 90800)

  1. fire, flame
  2. burn
  3. anger, rage

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[edit] References

  • 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

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(jyutping fo2, Yale fo2)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology 1

/hi2/: [pɨ] > [ɸɨ] > [ɸi] > [çi]. See apophonic form ho.

[edit] Noun

(hiragana , romaji hi)

  1. a fire; flames
  2. a light
  3. heat

[edit] Etymology 2

/ho/: [po] > [ɸo] > [ho]. Found in compounds. See apophonic form hi.

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(hiragana , romaji ho)

  1. a fire
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(grade 1 kanji)

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Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: hwa, McCune-Reischauer: hwa, Yale: hwa)
  • Name (hangeul):  (revised: bul, McCune-Reischauer: pul, Yale: pul)
  1. fire

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[edit] Noun

(hwa, hangeul )

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

[edit] Synonyms

  • (Tuesday): 화요일 (hwayoil, “Tuesday”)

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin huǒ (huo3), Wade-Giles huo3)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(hoả)