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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
fuse (for explosives) / (fig.) proximate cause / the last straw
a conflict arises close to home (idiom)
a low fire (for roasting)
see 心急如焚[]
see 心急如焚[]
lit. as hurried as a shooting star (idiom) / requiring immediate action / extremely urgent
see 急如星火[]
brisk heat (cooking) / (TCM) internal heat generated by anxiety
stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom) / to get one's fingers burnt / fig. to suffer on account of one's own meddling
low heat (cooking)
lust
burning with desire
fire of war everywhere (idiom) / enveloped in the flames of war
lit. to carry firewood to put out a fire (idiom) / fig. to make a problem worse by inappropriate action
(TCM) to cup / to give a cupping treatment / short detachable stove chimney used to help draw fire
erhua variant of 拔火罐[]
see 招風惹草|招风惹草[]
to exchange fire
to sow discord / to provoke
stick or rod used to tend a fire
to shoot accidentally while polishing a gun / (fig.) a minor incident that sparks a war
to make a fire
the show must go on (idiom)
relieve inflammation or internal heat
small flame (when cooking, simmering etc)
(of a newly appointed official) to make bold changes on assuming office (idiom)
a single spark can start a huge blaze (idiom) / an insignificant cause can have a massive effect
spark / meteor trail (mostly used in expressions like 急如星火[])
forest fire
extinct volcano
to kill and burn (idiom) / murder and arson
completely incompatible / lit. incompatible as fire and water
fire and flood have no mercy (idiom)
(coll.) matches (old)
lit. to see sth as clearly as one sees a blazing fire (idiom) / fig. to grasp the situation thoroughly
flaming fire / flames
active volcano
to rise from the ashes (idiom) / to thrive again after surviving an ordeal
fire hydrant
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27