Meaning & readings
fire
On’yomi カ
Kun’yomi ひ、-び、ほ-
Origin
火 is a pictograph of a fire. The centre stroke is a rising flame and the strokes on each side are sparks or smaller flames leaping away from it. In its compressed form 灬, written as four dots along the bottom of a character, it still means fire or heat.
Hand-written summary. Formation type (automated guess): Pictographic or simple.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (火).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 4
- Kangxi radical
- 86
- Grade
- Grade 1 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #574 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 4
- Unicode
- U+0706B