火 fire, flame

ひ hi · as a side part ひへん hihen

4 strokesRadical of 16 kanjiPart of 18

Your ink in 火0% painted · 0 of 16 familiar

Origin · sourced

Pictogram象形

Pictographic representation of a fire. Written as 灬 when at the bottom of a character, but still seen in the original form in the character 灸.

Source: Wiktionary, 火 (rev. 94507178), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Look at 火 and see the campfire! The central stroke is the main flame, and the side strokes are sparks dancing in the wind. Fire brings warmth but also danger.”

Where it sits in a kanji

Indicates burning, heat, cooking, or intense energy/passion

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What it grows into

Built from 火, with sourced origins

炎inflammationエン · ほのお
火 + 火
Vertical duplication of 火 (“fire”).
Ideogrammic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
燃burnネン · もえる
火 + 然sound
Burn with fire. Originally 然, but because it was phonetically borrowed for abstract senses, 火 was added for differentiation.
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
焼bakeショウ · やく
火 + 堯sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, 燒, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Every kanji with 火 as its radical

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