🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

火

Pronunciation / Transliteration: huǒ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Fire/ˈfaɪ.ər/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"壁炉里的火让房间变得温暖。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The process of combustion characterized by heat, light, and flame.

    "The campfire provided warmth and a place to cook our meals."
As verb
  1. 1

    To cause to burn; to ignite.

    "They decided to fire up the grill for the barbecue."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Proto-Germanic *fōr- ('fire'), from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥, meaning 'fire' or 'lightning'. It has cognates in Old English 'fȳr', German 'Feuer', and Greek 'pyř', maintaining its core phonetic and semantic structure across millennia.

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