Kanji: 火

    • Meaning : fire
    • ON reading :
    • KUN reading : ひ,-び,ほ-
    • Nanori :
    • Stroke count : 4
    • Frequency of use ranking : 574
    • Jouyou grade level : 1
    • JLPT : 4
    • Radical : 火 (灬)

Words containing that kanji:


  • - こたつがけ - cover for kotatsu
  • - こたつぶとん - cover for kotatsu
  • たない - ひのないところにけむりはたたない - There is no smoke without some fire
  • く - やけぼっくいにひがつく - Wood half-burned is easily kindled
  • んで - とんでひにいるなつのむし - It is like a moth flying into the flame
  • かるわねばならぬ - ふりかかるひのこははらわねばならぬ - You must protect yourself against any possible dangers
  • - ひのようじん - be careful about fire/watch out for fire
  • - ねんはっかのうりょく - pyrokinesisis
  • - ひはっかせい - non-incendive/non-firing
  • のないところにたない - ひのないところにけむりはたたない - There's no smoke without fire.
  • - いんか - catching fire
  • - いんかおんど - flash temperature
  • - いんかてん - flash point/flashing point
  • - とおび - distant fire/fire at some distance (in cooking)
  • - えいかだん - tracer bullet
  • - えんか - smoke and fumes (e.g. from cooking) | beacon/skyrocket/signal fire | fireworks
  • - したび - burning low/waning/declining
  • になる - したびになる - to be under control/to burn down/to decline/to drop/to wane
  • - ひのたま - falling star/fireball
  • - ひのくるま - fiery chariot | extreme poverty
  • | - ほかげ - firelight/shadows or forms moving in firelight
  • - ひかげん - condition of fire
  • - かき - fire
  • - かけい - stake
  • - かこうこ - crater lake
  • - かざん - volcano
  • - かじ - fire/conflagration
  • - かしゅ - strong drink
  • - ひくいどり - cassowary
  • - かせいじん - Martian
  • - かたく - burning house/this world of suffering
  • - かなん - fire calamity
  • - ひばち - brazier
  • - かもくど - Tue-Thurs-Sat
  • - かようび - Tuesday
  • 調 - かりょくしえんちょうせいせん - fire support coordination line
  • - ひとかげ - salamander
  • - ひのけ - heat of fire/trace of fire
  • - ひのもと - origin of fire
  • - ひのこ - sparks
  • - ほや - lamp chimney
  • - かき - firearms/guns
  • - ひだま - falling star/fireball
  • - かこう - crater/caldera
  • - ひざら - fire grate/chafing dish/pipe bowl
  • - かざんがん - volcanic rock
  • - ひだね - live coals (for firelighting)/remains of fire
  • - かしょく - eating cooked food
  • - かせい - Mars (planet)
  • | | - ひうちいし | すいせき - flint
  • - ひなわじゅう - matchlock/arquebus
  • - ひばし - tongs
  • - かほう - artillery
  • - かよう - Tuesday
  • - かりょくしえんけいかく - fire support plan
  • | - こたつ - table with heater/(orig) charcoal brazier in a floor well
  • - ひのみ - fire tower
  • - ひのて - flames/blaze/fire
  • - かえんびん - Molotov cocktail
  • - ひばな - spark
  • | - ひあし - spreading of a fire
  • - ひもと - origin of a fire
  • - かさい - conflagration/fire
  • - かざんばい - volcanic ash
  • ち | ち - ひもち - fire-holding qualities/length of time a fire burns
  • - ひどこ - fire bed/fire grate
  • - かせい - force of flames
  • - ひさき | ほさき - flames/forefront of fire/flame tips
  • - かちゅう - in the fire/in the flames
  • れ - ひいれ - fire pan | heating | first lighting (e.g. furnace)/firing (e.g. forest)/kindling/igniting | pasteurization
  • き - ひつき - kindling a fire/lighting a fire
  • - かやく - gunpowder/powder
  • - かりょく - heating power/steam power
  • - かりょくしえんぶたい - fire support element
  • | - はなび - fireworks
  • - ひ - fire/flame/blaze
  • - ひのみやぐら - fire lookout/watchtower
  • - ひのばん - night watch/fire watchman
  • - かえんほうしゃき - flame thrower
  • - ひぶた - cover for gun barrel
  • - かきゅう - emergency/urgency
  • - かこう - firelight
  • - かさいほけん - fire insurance
  • - かざんかつどう - volcanic activity
  • - かしゅ - stoker
  • る - ほてる - to feel hot/to flush/to burn
  • - かせいがん - igneous rock
  • - かそう - cremation
  • - ひばしら - pillar of fire/blazing column
  • - かねつ - heat
  • - かふ - fireman/stoker
  • び - ひあそび - playing with fire/playing with love
  • - かりょくしえん - fire support
  • - かりょくはつでんしょ - thermal power station (i.e. using combustion)
  • - かっかざん | かつかざん - active volcano
  • からる - かおからひがでる - to be extremely embarrassed/to burn with shame
  • - おにび - will-o'-the-wisp/jack-o'-lantern
  • - きゅうかざん - dormant volcano
  • - ごうか - hell fire
  • - ちすいかふう | じすいかふう - earth, water, fire, and wind (the four elements)
  • - ちすいかふうくう | じすいかふうくう - earth, water, fire, wind and void (the five elements)
  • - ごりんせいか - Olympic torch
  • - きつねび - St. Elmo's fire/will-o'-the-wisp
  • - あんか - bed warmer/foot warmer
  • - くちび - fuse/spark plug/cause (of war)/origin (of a quarrel)
  • る - くちびをきる - to start a conversation
  • をきる | る - ひぶたをきる - to start (an argument, a battle, etc.)
  • - ごうか - world-destroying conflagration
  • | き | | き - ひたき - building a fire
  • - か - Tuesday | fire (second of the five elements)
  • | お | - おひたき | おほたき - Kyoto area festival held on the 11th lunar month (wherein bonfires are burned at shrines)
  • - ひのかみ - god of fire (in Japanese mythology, usu. Kagutsuchi no Kami)
  • - やまかじ - bushfire
  • - のこりび - embers
  • - かざんれっとう - chain of volcanic islands
  • - しかけはなび - fireworks piece
  • | - にわび | ていりょう - garden bonfire (esp. one held on the imperial grounds)
  • | き | き | - ほたき - Kyoto area festival held on the 11th lunar month (wherein bonfires are burned at shrines)
  • - しっか - accidental fire
  • - かりび - borrowing fire/borrowed fire
  • - かしゃばば - evil old hag
  • - じゅうじほうか - cross fire
  • ハワイ - ハワイしきふんか - Hawaiian eruption
  • - ふくせいかざん - polygenetic volcano
  • - かざんさいせつがん - volcaniclastic rock
  • - かざんれつ - volcanic chain
  • - かざんばいどじょう - volcanic ash soil
  • - かざんじん - volcanic dust
  • - しゅっか - outbreak of fire
  • - じゅうじか - crossfire
  • - じゅうかき - heavy weapons
  • - じゅうか - gunfire
  • - たんせいかざん - monogenetic volcano
  • ガラス - かざんガラス - volcanic glass
  • - かさいぶつ - pyroclastic material
  • - かざんもう - Pele's hair (threads of volcanic glass formed in mid-air)
  • - かしゃ - fiery chariot | kasha (mythical beast said to devour dead bodies) | (in China) train (i.e. steam locomotive) | vile old hag
  • - げつか - Monday and Tuesday
  • - しょうか - fire fighting/extinguishing a fire
  • - しょうかせん - fire hydrant
  • - しょうかき - small arms
  • - しょうかき - fire extinguisher
  • ブルカノ - ブルカノしきふんか - Vulcanian eruption
  • - かざんさ - volcanic sand
  • フロント - かざんフロント - volcanic front
  • ストロンボリ - ストロンボリしきふんか - Strombolian eruption
  • - かざんぐん - volcanic group
  • - かざんしょうかぶつ - volcanic sublimate
  • ける | をつける | ける - ひをつける - to ignite/to set fire to | to spark (an incident, etc.)/to inflame (a situation, etc.)
  • エルモの - せいエルモのひ - St Elmo's fire
  • - せっか - flint fire/flash
  • - せんか - war
  • - きりび - Shinto fire-purification ceremony/flint sparks
  • - おくりび - ceremonial bonfire (seeing off the spirits on the final night of O-Bon)
  • - ホーコーツ - hotpot (Chinese dish)
  • - そっかざん - parasite volcano
  • | - ひたき | ヒタキ - Old World flycatcher (any bird of family Muscicapinae, esp. the typical flycatchers of subfamily Muscicapinae)
  • - たいくうほうか - anti-aircraft fire/flak
  • - たいか - fireproof
  • - たいせんしゃかき - anti-tank weapons
  • - ひへん - kanji "fire" radical at left
  • - れっか - kanji "fire" radical at bottom
  • - たいか - large fire
  • - じしんかみなりかじおやじ - earthquakes, thunder, fires, fathers (this proverb compares the traditional Japanese father with other things which are generally feared)
  • - たんしきかざん - simple volcano
  • - れんが - kanji "fire" radical at bottom
  • - てんか - fire caused by lightning
  • - てんかせん - spark plug
  • - ちんか - extinguished
  • - てんぴ - oven/(waffle) iron
  • - てんかけい - ignition system
  • - てんかやく - priming powders
  • - でんこうせっか - lightning speed
  • - かやくいんぼうじけん - Gunpowder Plot
  • - てんか - ignition/lighting/set fire to
  • - ひのわ - Ring of Fire (circum-Pacific volcanic belt)
  • - ないかてい - launch
  • - どうかせん - fuse
  • ぐ - ひにあぶらをそそぐ - to make things worse/to stir things up/lit: to add fuel to the fire
  • - なんきんはなび - firecracker
  • - はいかきょう - Zoroastrianism
  • - ぼうかくんれん - fire drill
  • - はっか - firing/ignition
  • - はっかそうち - incendiary device
  • ばさみ - ひばさみ - fire tongs
  • - ふしんび - fire under suspicious circumstances/arson
  • - ふんかざん - volcano
  • - ひのなかみずのなか - hell and high water
  • - ふんかこう - crater
  • - つけび - incendiarism
  • - ふんか - eruption
  • たき | | - たきび - open-air fire (e.g. for garden refuse)/bonfire | open fire (e.g. in a kitchen)
  • - へいか - fire caused by war
  • - ほうか - gunfire/fire
  • - ぼうかへき - firewall
  • - ぼうかとびら - fire door
  • - ほうか - arson/set fire to
  • - ぼうか - fire prevention/fire fighting/fire proof
  • - じかび - open fire/direct heat
  • からる - めからひがでる - to "see stars" (i.e. after being hit in the head)
  • う - かちゅうのくりをひろう - to take risk
  • - かそうばじゅうぎょういん - crematorium worker
  • - ひぶくろ - fire box in traditional Japanese lantern
  • - すみだがわはなびたいかい - Sumida River Firework Festival (Tokyo)
  • - たいがんのかじ - no skin off my nose/expression meaning that somebody else's problem is no concern of yours/lit: fire on the opposite shore
  • | | | - ひざらがい | じいがせ | ヒザラガイ - chiton (any marine mollusk of the class Polyplacophora)/sea cradle | Japanese chiton (Acanthopleura japonica)
  • | | - のろし | ろうえん | ほうか - beacon/skyrocket/signal fire
  • はもとからぐ - へとかじはもとからさわぐ - it is often the originator of problems who kicks up a fuss or complains loudest
  • - れっか - raging fire/conflagration
  • - おきび - blazing fire
  • ロケット - ロケットはなび - skyrocket/bottle rocket
  • - きょか - pine torch/torchlight/firebrand
  • - やけど | かしょう - burn/scald
  • - おおかじ - big fire (buildings, etc. on fire)
  • - かやりび - smoky fire to repel mosquitoes
  • | - かせん | ひや - fire arrow
  • | ばし | ばし | - やけひばし - burning-hot tongs/red-hot tongs
  • - かさいけいほうき - fire alarm or sensor
  • - かしば - match/lucifer
  • | | | - ひ | とう | ともしび | とうか | しょく - light/lamp/lamplight | (unit, obs.) equiv. to candela
  • - しらぬい | しらぬひ - phosphorescent light/mysterious lights on the sea/sea fire
  • | - かさいりゅう - pyroclastic flow (type of volcanic eruption)/stone wind
  • | - けいか | ほたるび - light of a firefly
  • | - かえん - flame/blaze
  • | - とびひ - leaping flames/shower of flying sparks | impetigo contagiosa
  • | | | - ひけしつぼ - charcoal extinguisher
  • け | - ひつけ - arson/incendiarism
  • - ぼや | しょうか - small fire
  • - ひつけやく - instigator/troublemaker
  • - ひのとり - phoenix (esp. fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix)
  • - たいかぶつ - refractory/heat resistance material/high temperature resistance material
  • - ちゃっか - ignited/kindled/catching (fire)
  • がつく | く | く - ひがつく - to catch fire/to provoke/to catch fire from/to be ignited
  • - かこうげん - crater floor/crater basin
  • - じょうか - passion (of love)
  • - かたくむじょう - This world is uncertain (cruel) like a burning house
  • - きんか | ちかび - fire in the neighborhood/fire in the neighbourhood
  • - せいか - sacred fire (torch) | Olympic flame
  • - かこうへき - crater wall
  • - ふなかじ - fire aboard ship
  • - よわび - simmering/low fire/gentle heating
  • - かんたいへいようかざんたい - circum-Pacific volcanic belt/Ring of Fire
  • - かいか - fire of mysterious or suspicious origin
  • | | | - ほりごたつ - low, covered table placed over a hole in the floor of a Japanese-style room
  • - もうか - raging or roaring flames
  • - こんごうかやく - explosive mixture
  • - むとうか - without lights
  • - きゅうか | きゅうび - sudden fire/nearby fire
  • - はっかてん - point of ignition/flash point
  • - たねび - spark/ember/pilot light
  • - ちゃっかてん - ignition point
  • - いしびや - ancient type of cannon
  • - むかえび - welcoming fire for returning spirits
  • - ちゅうび - (cooking) a medium flame or fire
  • | - ごじんか - deified volcano or volcanic eruption
  • - しらぬいがた - Shiranui style of grand champion's ring-entering ceremony (sumo)
  • - ぼうかど - a fire door
  • - ほうかきょう - pyromania/a pyromaniac
  • - のび - burning off the fields
  • - ねずみはなび - pinwheel
  • - ぼうかけんちく - a fireproof building
  • - ほうかざい - (the crime of) arson
  • - ぼうかとりょう - fire-resistant paint
  • - ぼうかせん - a firebreak
  • - ふうりんかざん - as fast as the wind, as quiet as the forest, as daring as fire, and immovable as the mountain
  • - かりょくはつでん - thermal power generation
  • - かざんたい - volcanic zone or belt
  • - かざんれき - lapilli
  • - ひふきだけ - bamboo blowpipe used to stimulate a fire
  • い | - かじみまい - post-fire visit to express sympathy/expressing one's sympathy after a fire
  • - かろ - furnace/boiler
  • よけ | け - ひよけ - protection against fire
  • - かそうば - crematory/crematorium
  • り | り - ほてり - a glow/heat | burning sensation/hot flash
  • - かやくこ - powder magazine
  • - れんぞくほうか - a series of arson cases
  • リレー - せいかリレー - Olympic torch relay
  • し - ひぼし - drying by fire
  • - かざんみゃく - volcanic range or chain
  • - ひみず - (as discordant as) fire and water
  • - かさいほうちき - fire alarm (device)
  • - かじどろ - looter at the scene of a fire
  • り | り - ひあぶり - burning at the stake/burning to death
  • - ひおけ - wooden brazier
  • れ | れ - ひぶくれ - a blister
  • - ひのし - an iron
  • - じか - a fire raging in one's own home
  • - しぜんはっか - spontaneous combustion
  • - でいかざん - mud volcano
  • - ひぐち - a burner/origin of a fire
  • - かざんとう - volcanic island
  • - かきげんきん - a warning of flammability
  • - かさいけいほう - fire alarm
  • - かじば - scene of a fire
  • ともし | | | | しごろ | - ひともしごろ | ひとぼしごろ - early evening/dusk/lamp-lighting time/lighting-up time
  • め - ひぜめ - torture by fire
  • - ひだるま - body covered with flames
  • - ひなわ - a fuse
  • - かこうげんこ - crater lake
  • - かざんだん - volcanic projectiles
  • - ひいろ - color of flames/colour of flames
  • め - ひぜめ - attacking with fire
  • - かじばどろぼう - looter at the scene of a fire
  • し - ひけし - extinguishing a fire | (Edo-period) fireman
  • り - ひわたり - fire-walking (walking over fire or burning coals)
  • き - ひかき - a poker/fire iron used to rake ash
  • - かせん - firing line
  • - かどび - fire lit at a gate for funerals, weddings and Obon
  • - ほうかさつじん - murder-arson
  • - すいか - fire and water
  • - るいか - catching fire/a spreading fire
  • - らいか - flash of lightning/fire started by lightning
  • - せんこうはなび - toy fireworks/sparklers
  • やけど | - おおやけど - large burn or scald
  • - はこひばち - brazier encased in a wooden box
  • - じょうか - sacred fire
  • - かさいがん - pyroclastic rock
  • - かざんさいせつぶつ - volcaniclastic material/pyroclastic material
  • - かざんばくはつ - volcanic explosion
  • | - ひとりが | ヒトリガ - garden tiger moth (Arctia caja)
  • - せいそうかざん - stratovolcano/composite volcano
  • - しんか - sacred flame
  • - かこうひん - priming materials
  • - かざんがんせん - volcanic spine
  • - かざんでいりゅう - volcanic mudflow
  • - ひとり - incense burner | utensil for carrying live charcoal
  • - かでん - slash-and-burn agriculture
  • - りんか - phosphorous light/ignis fatuus/will-o'-the-wisp
  • - われめふんか - fissure eruption
  • - かいていかざん - submarine volcano
  • - とうかかんせい - blackout (to prevent being seen by enemy aircraft during a nighttime air raid)
  • - しんりんかさい - forest fire
  • - しかざん - extinct volcano
  • - こくしょくかやく - black powder/gunpowder
  • - ろうか - signal fire/beacon
  • - てっかみそ - miso, fried soybeans and vegetables seasoned with sake and sugar
  • - うちあげはなび - skyrocket (firework)
  • - ひばなほうでん - spark discharge
  • - かざんばいど - volcanic ash soil
  • - かざんぜんせん - volcanic front
  • - かざんらい - volcanic thunderstorm
  • - かせいこうしょう - igneous deposit
  • - てっかまき - vinegared rice and sliced raw tuna wrapped in seaweed
  • - てっか - red-hot iron/gunfire/gambling/violent-tempered
  • - てっかば - gambling room
  • ガス - かざんガス - volcanic gas
  • - かざんせいじしん - volcanic earthquake
  • - かざんふんしゅつぶつ - volcanic product
  • - かせいかつどう - igneous activity
  • - きせいかざん - parasite volcano
  • - てっかどんぶり - vinegared rice topped with sliced raw tuna
  • - つよび - high flame or heat (in cooking)
  • | - おきごたつ - portable brazier
  • かがり | - かがりび - bonfire/watch fire/fishing fire/cresset/brazier
  • - ながひばち - oblong brazier
  • - てんかき - igniter
  • - ぎょか | いさりび - fire for luring fish at night
  • - むえんかやく - smokeless (gun)powder
  • - はなびせんこう - toy fireworks/sparklers
  • - いさりび - fire for luring fish at night
  • - またび - warming one's crotch by standing over a hibachi
  • 綿 - めんかやく - guncotton/cotton powder
  • - たいかりょく - fire resistant
  • - たいかせい - fire resistance
  • とろ - とろび - low flame (heat, gas)
  • - たいかけんちく - fireproof building
  • - ふくしきかざん - composite volcano
  • - しゅうちゅうほうか - concentrated fire
  • - たいかれんが - firebrick
  • かい - むかいび - backfire (to defend against forest fires)
  • - うずみび - banked fire
  • - せいかだい - platform (structure) bearing the Olympic flame
  • - すみび - charcoal fire
  • - かさいほうちき - fire alarm (box)
  • - はなびたいかい - display of fireworks/firework(s) display
  • のともしび | | のともし | - ふうぜんのともしび - precarious situation/precarious state
  • こった - あかあかとおこったひ - blazing fire
  • えた - きえたひ - dead fire
  • - はなびし - pyrotechnist/pyrotechnician
  • - かこうきゅう - volcanic cone
  • - かせいねん - Martian year
  • - かもく - Tuesdays and Thursdays
  • きた - よくおきたひ - blazing fire
  • - かもくきん - Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
  • - ほうかま - pyromaniac
  • り - ぼうかずくり - fireproof construction
  • - じらいか - (land) mine
  • きがい - ひつきがわるい - slow to kindle
  • をかける | ける - ひをかける - to set fire
  • ける - ひでとける - to melt in the fire
  • たる - ひにあたる - to warm oneself at the fire
  • える - ひにたえる - to be fireproof
  • す - ひをとおす - to cook/to heat