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火 — fire; urgent; ammunition

fire; urgent; ammunition; fiery or flaming; internal heat; hot

Pinyin
huǒ · Huǒ
Strokes
4
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — huǒ, Huǒ — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 火: 4 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

火 — 4 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 火 in the HSK syllabus: 26

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 火车huǒchētrainHSK 1
  2. 火huǒfire; urgent; ammunition; fiery or flamingHSK 4
  3. 着火zháohuǒto catch fireHSK 4
  4. 火锅huǒguōhotpot; a blocked shot; a blockHSK 5
  5. 火柴huǒcháimatchHSK 6
  6. 火灾huǒzāiserious fireHSK 6
  7. 导火索dǎohuǒsuǒfuseHSK 7–9
  8. 点火diǎnhuǒto ignite; to light a fire; to agitateHSK 7–9
  9. 发火fāhuǒto catch fire; to ignite; to detonate; to get angryHSK 7–9
  10. 防火墙fánghuǒqiángfirewallHSK 7–9
  11. 红火hónghuoprosperousHSK 7–9
  12. 火爆huǒbàofiery; popular; flourishing; prosperous; livelyHSK 7–9
  13. 火候huǒhouheat control; mastery; crucial momentHSK 7–9
  14. 火花huǒhuāspark; sparkleHSK 7–9
  15. 火箭huǒjiànrocketHSK 7–9
  16. 火炬huǒjùtorchHSK 7–9
  17. 火辣辣huǒlàlàscorching hot; painful; burningHSK 7–9
  18. 火热huǒrèfiery; burning; fervent; ardent; passionateHSK 7–9
  19. 火山huǒshānvolcanoHSK 7–9
  20. 火速huǒsùat top speed; at a tremendous lickHSK 7–9
  21. 火腿huǒtuǐhamHSK 7–9
  22. 火焰huǒyànblaze; flameHSK 7–9
  23. 恼火nǎohuǒannoyed; riled; vexedHSK 7–9
  24. 上火shànghuǒto get angry; to suffer from excessive internal heatHSK 7–9
  25. 熄火xīhuǒto go out; to put out; to die down; to stallHSK 7–9
  26. 烟火yānhuǒsmoke and fire; cooked food; beacon fireHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.