Fire in Chinese (Mandarin): 火 (huǒ)

Use it in a sentence

The characters in 火

• 火

  Fire. It began as a drawing of flames.

  4 strokes

Third tone. At the bottom of a character, fire often becomes 灬, as in 热 (hot) and 熊 (bear).

More examples with 火

• 火很热。

  火很熱。

  Huǒ hěn rè.

  Fire is hot.

• 我们在营地生火。

  我們在營地生火。

  Wǒmen zài yíngdì shēng huǒ.

  We make a fire at the campsite.

How to write 火 in Chinese

Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.