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火 kanji
fire
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
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On readings
カ
Kun readings
ひ-びほ-
Variant forms
伙Words with 火
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —火頭pottery lantern (curved conical shape)
- —燈火light; lamplight
- —噴火孔(volcanic) crater
- —火災流pyroclastic flow
- —ご神火deified volcano or volcanic eruption
- —着火材firelighter
- —火灯窓bell-shaped window (usu. in temples)
- —火焔茸poison fire coral (Podostroma cornu-damae)
- —火澤睽kui (hexagram 38 of the I Ching: opposition)
- —澤火革ge (hexagram 49 of the I Ching: revolution)
- —火事見舞post-fire visit to express sympathy; expressing one's sympathy after a fire
- —火事どろlooter; thief at the scene of a fire; someone who takes advantage of a crisis to commit a crime
- —火事ドロlooter; thief at the scene of a fire; someone who takes advantage of a crisis to commit a crime
- —鉄火みそmiso, fried soybeans and vegetables seasoned with sake and sugar
- —鉄火巻きvinegared rice and sliced raw tuna wrapped in seaweed
- —火薬ご飯casserole of rice, fish or meat, and vegetables
- —火焰太鼓dadaiko drum (decorated with flames)
- —火炎太鼓dadaiko drum (decorated with flames)
- —火焔放射器flamethrower
- —防火水そうfire cistern