火
fire
4 strokes. Taught in grade 1. Newspaper frequency rank 574.
Readings
- カ (on reading): 火事 (かじ) fire; 火力 (かりょく) heating power
- ひ (kun reading): 火 (ひ) fire; 花火 (はなび) fireworks
- ほ (kun reading): 火照る (ほてる) to feel hot; 火影 (ほかげ) firelight
- び (kun reading)
- Read as a whole word: 火傷 (やけど) burn; 不知火 (しらぬい) phosphorescent light; 小火 (ぼや) small fire
Components
- 火 radical fire
Kanji containing 火
- 秋 autumn
- 爆 bomb
- 燃 burn
- 災 disaster
- 焼 bake
- 畑 farm
- 滅 destroy
- 炎 inflammation
- 煙 smoke
- 炉 hearth
- 灯 lamp
- 灰 ashes
- 炊 cook
- 燥 parch
- 炒 broil
- 煩 anxiety
- 煥 shine
- 燈 lamp
- 灸 moxa cautery
- 灼 miraculous
- 狄 barbarian
- 炙 roast
- 炬 torch
- 炮 burn
- 炯 light
- 炳 clear & bright
- 炸 frying
- 烙 burn
- 烟 smoke
- 耿 light
- 烱 light
- 烽 signal fire
- 焔 flame
- 焙 fire
- 焚 burn
- 焜 shine
- 焰 flame
- 煉 refine metals
- 煌 glitter
- 煖 warm
- 煤 soot
- 煬 roast
- 煽 fan
- 熄 cessation
- 熔 fuse
- 熕 cannon
- 熨 flatiron
- 熾 kindling fire
- 燉 fiery
- 燎 burn
- 燒 burn
- 燔 burn
- 燗 warming sake
- 燐 phosphorus
- 燠 embers
- 燦 brilliant
- 燧 signal fire
- 燬 blaze
- 燭 light
- 燮 moderate
And 8 more.
Words using 火
- 火事 (かじ) fire
- 火力 (かりょく) heating power
- 火災 (かさい) conflagration
- 火曜日 (かようび) Tuesday
- 火山 (かざん) volcano
- 火 (ひ) fire
- 花火 (はなび) fireworks
- 焚き火 (たきび) open-air fire (e.g. for garden refuse)
- 花火大会 (はなびたいかい) fireworks display
- 強火 (つよび) high flame (cooking)
- 火傷 (やけど) burn
- 不知火 (しらぬい) phosphorescent light
- 小火 (ぼや) small fire
- 不知火型 (しらぬいがた) Shiranui style of grand champion's ring-entering ceremony
- 点火 (とぼし) light
- 火照る (ほてる) to feel hot
- 火影 (ほかげ) firelight
- 火垂るの墓 (ほたるのはか) Grave of Fireflies (film)
- 火明命 (ほあかりのみこと) Hoakari no Mikoto (Japanese deity)
- 火屋 (ほや) lamp chimney
- 置き火燵 (おきごたつ) portable brazier
- 火病 (ファビョン) hwabyeong (Korean somatization disorder arising from repressed anger)
- 火箸 (こじ) tongs (esp. for incense or for use in a Buddhist temple)
621 words in all.