English: fire	On-Yomi: カ	Kun-Yomi: ひ -び ほ-

Bushu (Radical) Info: 火 (ひ) – fire

Henshall Mnemonic: flames of fire

Levels: JLPT N5 | JLPT 4 (old) | Grade 1
Frequency: #574 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:

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JLPT N5 Words

• 火曜日   [かようび]
  (n-adv,n) Tuesday   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N4 Words

• 火事   [かじ]
  (n) fire; conflagration   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 火   [ひ]
  (n,n-suf) fire; flame; blaze   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N3 Words

• 火曜   [かよう]
  (n-adv,n) (abbr) Tuesday   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 火災   [かさい]
  (n) conflagration; fire   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N2 Words

• 火傷   [やけど]
  (n) burn; scald   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 花火   [はなび]
  (n) fireworks   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 噴火   [ふんか]
  (n,vs) eruption   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 火山   [かざん]
  (n) volcano   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N1 Words

• 点火   [てんか]
  (n,vs) ignition; lighting; set fire to   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 火星   [かせい]
  (n) Mars (planet)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 防火   [ぼうか]
  (n) fire prevention; fire fighting; fire proof   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 火花   [ひばな]
  (n) spark   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 下火   [したび]
  (n) burning low; waning; declining   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT

• 灯火   [とうか]
  (n) lamplight   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 消火   [しょうか]
  (n,vs) fire fighting; extinguishing a fire   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 消火器   [しょうかき]
  (n) fire extinguisher   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 火種   [ひだね]
  (n) live coals (for firelighting); remains of fire   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 発火   [はっか]
  (n,vs) firing; ignition   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 大火   [たいか]
  (n) large fire   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 火葬   [かそう]
  (n) cremation   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 聖火   [せいか]
  (n) (1) sacred fire (torch); (2) Olympic flame   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 山火事   [やまかじ]
  (n) bushfire   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 火鉢   [ひばち]
  (n) brazier   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 火付け役   [ひつけやく]
  (n) instigator; troublemaker   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 飛び火   [とびひ]
  (n) (1) leaping flames; shower of flying sparks; (2) impetigo contagiosa   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 火薬   [かやく]
  (n) gunpowder; powder   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 火力   [かりょく]
  (n) heating power; steam power   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 口火   [くちび]
  (n) fuse; spark plug; cause (of war); origin (of a quarrel)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 出火   [しゅっか]
  (n,vs) outbreak of fire   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 放火   [ほうか]
  (n,vs) arson; set fire to   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 小火   [ぼや]
  (n) small fire   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 砲火   [ほうか]
  (n) gunfire; fire   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 耐火   [たいか]
  (n) fireproof   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 導火線   [どうかせん]
  (n) fuse   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 戦火   [せんか]
  (n) war   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 火炎瓶   [かえんびん]
  (n) Molotov cocktail   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 火器   [かき]
  (n) firearms; guns   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 火口   [ひぐち]
  (n) a burner; origin of a fire   [K] [D] [Jisho]

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Acknowledgments

The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.

NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.

The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.

Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.

The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.

If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.