火
Meanings
- fire
- urgent
- ammunition
- fiery or flaming
- internal heat (Chinese medicine)
- hot (popular)
- classifier for military units (old)
- flame
- to burn
- anger
- rage
- a group of (people), a quantifier
- KangXi radical 86
- ammunition
- red
- a surname
- wild
- bad-tempered
- crazy
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 火 Huǒ CC-CEDICT · Mandarinsurname Huo
- 火 huǒ CC-CEDICT · Mandarinfire; urgent; ammunition; fiery or flaming; internal heat (Chinese medicine); hot (popular); classifier for military units (old); Kangxi radical 86
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: huo3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 21 senses · 1 Cantonese reading
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
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Cantonese word readings for 火. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- fire; flame (Classifier: 把 m; 團／团 m)
- fire (as a disaster); inferno
- fire, one of the five elements of Wu Xing (五行 (-))
- fire, one of the five elements of Wu Xing (五行 (-)) — (Classical) short for 火曜日 (huǒyàorì): Tuesday
- red; fiery; bright; brilliant
- to burn down
- light; torch
- (dialectal) light; lamp
- anger; rage; wrath
- to become enraged
- angry; furious
- (traditional Chinese medicine) internal heat
- firearm; ammunition; weapon
- war; warfare
- thriving; brisk
- urgent; pressing
- (neologism) to become popular; to go viral
- (neologism) to be popular; to be viral
- (Cantonese) watt (unit of power)
- (abbreviation, alt-of) short for 火星 (Huǒxīng, “Mars”)
- (Cantonese) roasted
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