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Mythic Mandarin

着火 (zháo huǒ): meaning and stroke order

着火 (zháo huǒ) means to catch fire.

着火

Simplified
着火
Traditional
著火
Pinyin
zháo huǒ

Stroke order of 着火

着

  • zhāo a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]); trick; tactic
  • zháo to touch; to come in contact with
  • zhe aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 著

Stroke by stroke

火

  • Huǒ surname Huo
  • huǒ fire; urgent
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 着火

  1. zháo huǒ Traditional 著火
    • to catch fire

Radicals of the characters

着
Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 12 strokes
火
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 4 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

着火 in our stories

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  • 他张开双臂，想去抱住它，可是炽热的光芒让他口渴难忍，喉咙像着火了一样。

    tā zhāngkāi shuāngbì xiǎng qù bào zhù tā kěshì chìrè de guāngmáng ràng tā kǒukě nánrěn hóulong xiàng zháohuǒ le yíyàng

    He opened his arms to embrace it, but the scorching light gave him an unbearable thirst, and his throat felt as if it were on fire.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 着火

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).