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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
- —火田slash-and-burn agriculture
- —列火kanji "fire" radical at bottom (radical 86)
- —連火kanji "fire" radical at bottom
- —月火Monday and Tuesday
- —火車fiery chariot; kasha (mythical beast said to devour dead bodies); steam locomotive (in China); vile old hag
- —弄火playing with fire
- —火球fireball; bolide; fireball
- —火竜firedrake
- —別火cooking over a second fire to prevent contamination from one's everyday fire for performing Shinto rites; cooking over a second fire to prevent contamination from mourning people, menstruating women, etc.
- —火灯pottery lantern (curved conical shape)
- —火風fire and wind; fire-laden wind
- —炉火hearthfire; ingle; open fire in a fireplace
- —火防fire prevention
- —火船fire ship; steamship (esp. a paddle steamer); steamboat; ship with a fire to attract fish while net fishing at night (prior to the invention of electric fish-luring lights)
- —採火lighting a sacred flame by the light of the Sun
- —火水Tuesday and Wednesday
- —火綿colloxylin
- —火計fire attack; attacking and burning enemy troops, warships, provisions, etc.
- —分火passing the flame; lighting (a torch) from a (larger) flame; spreading (of a sentiment, movement, etc.); growing; catching on (of an argument, practice, etc.)
- —小火small fire