Fire radical 火 (huǒ): 54 characters

body{font-family:sans-serif;max-width:860px;margin:40px auto;padding:0 20px;color:#1a1a2e}Fire radical 火 (huǒ): 54 characters火 (huǒ) is Kangxi radical no. 86, “fire”. It also appears as 灬 (huǒ). In this form it is written with 4 strokes.Fire is 火 (huǒ) on the left or four dots 灬 (huǒ) underneath: cooking, heat, light and burning.The characters range from 4 to 19 strokes. 4 of them already appear in HSK 3.0 levels 1–2, and 5 have a full word page of their own.Good ones to start with: 火 (huǒ) fire / flame, 点 (diǎn) o'clock / dot / a little, 热 (rè) hot, 灯 (dēng) lamp / light.Characters with this radical4 strokes

火 (huǒ) - fire / flame

5 strokes

灭 (miè) - to extinguish or put out

6 strokes

灯 (dēng) - lamp / light

灰 (huī) - grey / gray

7 strokes

灾 (zāi) - disaster

灿 (càn) - vivid, illuminating, brilliant

灸 (jiǔ) - moxibustion

灼 (zhuó) - to burn

8 strokes

炒 (chǎo) - to sauté

炎 (yán) - flame

炖 (dùn) - to stew

炬 (jù) - torch

炉 (lú) - stove

9 strokes

点 (diǎn) - o'clock / dot / a little

炼 (liàn) - to refine

炸 (zhà) - to burst

烂 (làn) - soft

炮 (bāo) - to sauté

烁 (shuò) - to sparkle, to shine, to glitter

炭 (tàn) - wood charcoal

炫 (xuàn) - to glitter, to shine

10 strokes

热 (rè) - hot

烧 (shāo) - to burn

烦 (fán) - to feel vexed

烤 (kǎo) - to roast

烟 (yān) - cigarette or pipe tobacco

烈 (liè) - ardent

烫 (tàng) - to scald

烘 (hōng) - to bake

烛 (zhú) - candle

11 strokes

焕 (huàn) - shining

烹 (pēng) - cooking, cuisine

12 strokes

然 (rán) - certainly

煮 (zhǔ) - to cook

焦 (jiāo) - burnt

焚 (fén) - to burn

焰 (yàn) - flame

13 strokes

照 (zhào) - to shine

煤 (méi) - coal

煲 (bāo) - to cook slowly over a low flame

煌 (huáng) - bright, shining, luminous

煎 (jiān) - to pan fry

14 strokes

熊 (xióng) - bear

熬 (áo) - to cook on a slow fire

煽 (shān) - to stir up, to incite

熄 (xī) - to extinguish

熙 (xī) - bright, prosperous

熏 (xūn) - fragrance

15 strokes

熟 (shú) - ripe

熨 (yù) - reconciled

16 strokes

燃 (rán) - to burn

燕 (yàn) - lovebird, swallow

17 strokes

燥 (zào) - dry

19 strokes

爆 (bào) - to explode or burst

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Radicals and component data: Make Me a Hanzi by Shaunak Kishore (dictionary.txt, derived from Unihan and CJKlib), used under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3 or later. Make Me a Hanzi LGPL v3

Stroke counts: Make Me a Hanzi graphics.txt, derived from the Arphic PL KaitiM GB and Arphic PL UKai fonts by Arphic Technology, under the Arphic Public License - the same stroke data the animations use. Arphic Public License