JLPT level N5
Kanji 火 — "Fire"
Here is what 火 means, how it is read, what it is built from, and a story that makes "Fire" stick.
How it is read
On'yomi
か
the reading borrowed from Chinese — usually appears in compound words
Kun'yomi
ひ, -び, ほ-
the native Japanese reading — usually appears when the kanji stands alone
What it is made of
How to remember it
Kanji are not random strokes. Learn the parts and the whole becomes easy. Put the parts together into one picture. The stranger it is, the harder it is to forget.
火 Fire
火 Fire
The story
And Fire is no different — same meaning as its component!
- 火 Fire
The shape of a Fire flame burning brightly.
Words that use 火
12 of 15 words in the app that contain this kanji — the most common ones first.
- 火傷 やけど burn, scald
- 火 ひ fire
- 火事 かじ fire
- 花火 はなび fireworks
- 火災 かさい conflagration, fire
- 火曜日 かようび Tuesday
- 火星 かせい Mars
- 火口 かこう crater (of a volcano)
- 火山 かざん volcano
- 火花 ひばな spark
- 噴火 ふんか eruption
- 防火 ぼうか fire prevention, fire fighting, fire proof
Want 火 to still be there next month?
Reading it once is not remembering it. The app brings each kanji back right before you would have forgotten it.
