huǒ

  1. huǒ noun fire; flame
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Fire
    Notes: For example, in literary Chinese, 遠水不救近火 'distant water cannot extinguish a nearby fire'from Han Feizi's Shuo Lin Shang (DCP 'Y448'; GHC '火' 1; Kroll 2015 '火' 1, p. 179; Sun 2006, loc. 1377; Unihan '火').
  2. huǒ verb to start a fire; to burn
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Fire
    Notes: In the sense of 烧 (GHC '火' 5; Kroll 2015 '火' 1a, p. 179; Unihan '火')
  3. huǒ noun Kangxi radical 86
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
    Notes: (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
  4. huǒ noun anger; rage
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 怒气 (GHC '火' 9; Sun 2006, loc. 1358; Unihan '火')
  5. huǒ noun fire element
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: One of the 五行 'five elements' of traditional Chinese thought (Tzu Chuang 2012, p. 92; GHC '火' 13; Kroll 2015 '火' 2, p. 179; Sun 2006, loc. 1377)
  6. huǒ proper noun Antares
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: The fire star 火星 (GHC '火' 12; Kroll 2015 '火' 3, p. 179)
  7. huǒ noun radiance
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 光芒 (GHC '火' 2)
  8. huǒ noun lightning
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 闪电 (GHC '火' 3)
  9. huǒ noun a torch
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (GHC '火' 4)
  10. huǒ adjective red
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: The color of fire (GHC '火' 6)
  11. huǒ adjective urgent
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 急迫 (GHC '火' 7)
  12. huǒ noun a cause of disease
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Subdomain: Chinese Medicine
    Notes: In the sense of 病因 (GHC '火' 8)
  13. huǒ noun huo
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: A military unit in ancient China (GHC '火' 10)
  14. huǒ noun companion; comrade
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 同伴 (GHC '火' 11)
  15. huǒ proper noun Huo
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (GHC '火' 14)
  16. huǒ noun fire; agni
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: agni, Japanese: ka, or: ko (BCSD '火', p. 748; MW 'agni'; SH '火', p. 160; Unihan '火')
  17. huǒ noun fire element
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: One of the 四大 four great elements (Tzu Chuang 2012, p. 92)
  18. huǒ noun Gode of Fire; Anala
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: anala, Tibetan: me (BCSD '火', p. 748; MW 'anala'; Mahāvyutpatti 'analaḥ')

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