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火 kanji
fire
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
カ
Kun readings
ひ-びほ-
Variant forms
伙Words with 火
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —発火Popularignition; combustion; catching fire; firing a blank cartridge; discharge of a gun without bullets; firing (of an event); triggering
- —放火Populararson; setting fire
- —砲火Populargunfire; fire
- —聖火Popularsacred fire; sacred flame; Olympic flame; Olympic torch
- —灯火Popularlight; lamplight
- —火炎瓶PopularMolotov cocktail; petrol bomb; gasoline bomb
- —火山灰Popularvolcanic ash
- —山火事Popularforest fire; wildfire; bushfire
- —消火器Popularfire extinguisher
- —導火線Popularfuse
- —火砕流Popularpyroclastic flow
- —火災保険Popularfire insurance
- —火Tuesday; fire (second of the five elements)
- —引火ignition; catching fire
- —煙火smoke and fumes (e.g. from cooking); beacon; skyrocket; signal fire; fireworks
- —火気fire; trace of fire; heat of fire; force of a fire; cause of a fire (lighter, match, spark, etc.)
- —火急urgency; exigency; emergency
- —火刑burning at the stake; execution by burning
- —火光firelight
- —火手stoker