火

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火 U+706B, 火
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-706B
← 灪
[U+706A]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 灬 →
[U+706C]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
火-order.gif

Alternative forms[edit]

  • 灬 (when used as a bottom Chinese radical)

Han character[edit]

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Radical 86 火

火 (radical 86 火+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 火 (F), four-corner 90800, composition ⿱八人)

  1. Kangxi radical #86, ⽕.

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • 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

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 火

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 火
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
火-oracle.svg 火-bronze.svg 火-silk.svg 火-bigseal.svg 火-seal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (火) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
火 qʰʷaːlʔ
邩 qʰʷaːlʔ
伙 qʰʷaːlʔ

Pictogram (象形) – pictographic representation of a fire.

Etymology[edit]

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mej.

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • huōi - colloquial;
  • huō - literary.
Note:
  • hóⁿ - literary;
  • hér/hé/hóe - vernacular.
Rime
Character 火
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 戈 (95)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 呼果切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /huɑX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /huɑX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xuɑX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hwaX/
Li
Rong		 /xuɑX/
Wang
Li		 /xuɑX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xuɑX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huǒ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 火
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 huǒ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xwaX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[qʷʰ]ˤəjʔ/
English fire

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 火
Reading # 1/1
No. 5540
Phonetic
component		 火
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 火
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰʷaːlʔ/

Definitions[edit]

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. Short for 火星 (Huǒxīng, “Mars”).

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 火

Descendants[edit]

Sino-Xenic (火):
  • Japanese: 火 (か) (ka)
  • Korean: 화 (火, hwa)
  • Vietnamese: hoả (火)

Japanese[edit]

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Kanji[edit]

火

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. fire

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Compounds

Etymology 1[edit]

火 (hi, ho, fu, ka): fire.
Kanji in this term
火
ひ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese. /hi2/: [pɨ] > [ɸɨ] > [ɸi] > [çi].[1]

Possibly a later development from older form ho (see below).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

火 (hiragana ひ, rōmaji hi)

  1. a fire; flames
  2. a light
  3. heat
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Idioms[edit]
Idioms

Etymology 2[edit]

Kanji in this term
火
ほ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese. /ho/: [po] > [ɸo] > [ho].[1]

Only used in compounds, whereas hi (see above) appears even in ancient texts as a standalone term. Probably the oldest form. Possibly cognate with Korean 불 (bul, “fire”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

火 (hiragana ほ, rōmaji ho)

  1. a fire
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms

Etymology 3[edit]

Kanji in this term
火
ふ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese. Ancient dialect form in eastern Japan.[1] Found in compounds.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

火 (hiragana ふ, rōmaji fu)

  1. a fire
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 4[edit]

火（か）: fire in the Wu Xing system
火（か）: Antares in the Scorpio constellation
Kanji in this term
火
か
Grade: 1
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 火 (xwaX).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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

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

Proper noun[edit]

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

  1. Tuesday
  2. Antares, in the constellation Scorpio
Synonyms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

火 • (hwa)

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

Compounds[edit]

Noun[edit]

火 • (hwa) (hangeul 화)

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

Synonyms[edit]

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

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

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