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- fire
- urgent
- ammunition
- fiery or flaming
- internal heat (Chinese medicine)
- hot (popular)
- classifier for military units (old)
- Kangxi radical 86
- fire and ice
- combination of sharply contrasting or incompatible elements
Trad. 火燙
- burning hot
- fiery
- to have one's hair permed with hot curling tongs
- to exchange fire; to engage in a firefight
- (fig.) to clash verbally; to exchange sharp criticism
Trad. 煙火
- smoke and fire
- cooked food
- (literary) beacon fire
- (literary) descendants; posterity
Trad. 火種
- tinder
- source of a fire
- inflammable material
- (fig.) spark (of a revolution etc)
Trad. 過火
- to go too far; to go overboard (in words or actions)
- over the top; excessive
- burned
Trad. 火險
- fire danger (abbr. for 火災危險|火灾危险[huo3 zai1 wei1 xian3])
- fire insurance (abbr. for 火災保險|火灾保险[huo3 zai1 bao3 xian3])
Trad. 火龍
- a lantern or torchlight procession (resembling a fiery dragon)
- wildfire
- (spreading like) wildfire
- bush fire
- farm fire (for clearing fields)
Trad. 對火
- to use the tip of another person’s lit cigarette to light one's own
Trad. 開火
- to open fire; to start shooting
- to light the flame (for cooking)
Trad. 點火
- to ignite
- to light a fire
- to agitate
- to start an engine
- ignition
- fig. to stir up trouble
Trad. 虛火
- excess of internal heat due to poor general condition (TCM)
- the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself
Trad. 火併
- (of rival gangs or armed factions etc) to engage in internecine violence; to have an open fight; to clash on the streets; to have a shootout
- to temper (iron)
- to flare back
- flareback (in a gas burner)
- (of an engine) to backfire
- spark
- meteor trail (mostly used in expressions like 急如星火[ji2 ru2 xing1 huo3])
Trad. 火槍
- firearms (in historical context)
- flintlock (old powder and shot firearm)
- (of fire, lamp etc) to go out
- to put out (fire)
- (fig.) to die down
- (of a vehicle) to stall
Trad. 紙火鍋
- paper hot pot (hot pot using a single-use pot made of Japanese washi paper with a special coating to prevent burning and leaking, used for cooking at the dining table)
- Mountain of Flames of legend
- fig. insurmountable obstacle
- Mountain of Flames in Turpan depression in Xinjiang
Trad. 火箭軍
- Rocket Force, branch of the PLA responsible for tactical and strategic missiles