verb

Meanings

  1. 1 (rare) to blaze; the appearance of fire
  2. 2 (used in given names) Yi

Examples

Zhè shì gè yóu sì gè huǒ zǔchéng de shēng pì zì, duō yòngyú rénmíng.
This is a rare character of four 火, used mostly in personal names.

Tips

history
is not a working word in modern Chinese. It is a rare 'piled-up' character — four (fire) stacked together for an image of intense blazing — used today almost only as an auspicious given-name character.

Components

semantic
huǒ
fire
The left half is two (fire). Doubling fire already means a big blaze, as in ; here it is doubled again on the right for an even fiercer image.
semantic
huǒ
fire
The right half repeats the same two . Four fires together push the 'flaming / blazing' meaning to its extreme — a purely ideographic pile-up with no separate phonetic part.

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