经 經 jīng classics / sacred book / scripture / to pass through / to undergo / to bear / to endure / warp (textile) / longitude / menstruation / channel (TCM) / abbr. for economics 經濟|经济[jing1 ji4] syn 神圣 神聖 shén shèng divine / hallow / holy / sacred syn 圣地 聖地 shèng dì holy land (of a religion) / sacred place / shrine / holy city (such as Jerusalem, Mecca etc) / center of historic interest 消防队 消防隊 xiāo fáng duì fire brigade / fire department 生火 shēng huǒ to make a fire / to light a fire syn 烟火 煙火 yān huǒ smoke and fire / cooked food / (literary) beacon fire / (literary) descendants / posterity syn 失火 shī huǒ to catch fire / to be on fire syn 熄火 xī huǒ (of fire, lamp etc) to go out / to put out (fire) / (fig.) to die down / (of a vehicle) to stall 消防车 消防車 xiāo fáng chē fire engine / fire truck 野火 yě huǒ wildfire / (spreading like) wildfire / bush fire / farm fire (for clearing fields) syn 菩提树 菩提樹 pú tí shù peepul (Ficus religiosa) / bodhi tree / sacred fig syn 火险 火險 huǒ xiǎn fire danger (abbr. for 火災危險|火灾危险[huo3zai1 wei1xian3]) / fire insurance (abbr. for 火災保險|火灾保险[huo3zai1 bao3xian3]) 嵩山 sōng shān Mt Song in Henan, central mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] 神山 shén shān sacred mountain 华山 華山 huà shān Mt Hua in Shaanxi, western mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] 衡山 héng shān Mt Heng in Hunan, southern mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] / Hengshan county in Hengyang 衡陽|衡阳[Heng2 yang2], Hunan 五岳 五嶽 wǔ yuè Five Sacred Mountains of the Daoists, namely: Mt Tai 泰山[Tai4 Shan1] in Shandong, Mt Hua 華山|华山[Hua4 Shan1] in Shaanxi, Mt Heng 衡山[Heng2 Shan1] in Hunan, Mt Heng 恆山|恒山[Heng2 Shan1] in Shanxi, Mt Song 嵩山[Song1 Shan1] in Henan 老子 lǎo zǐ Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism / the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经[Dao4 de2 jing1] by Laozi syn 峨眉山 é méi shān Mount Emei in Sichuan, one of the four sacred mountains of Chinese Buddhism 恒山 恆山 héng shān Mt Heng in Shanxi, northern mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] / Hengshan district of Jixi city 雞西|鸡西[Ji1 xi1], Heilongjiang 道德经 道德經 dào dé jīng the Book of Dao by Laozi or Lao-Tze, the sacred text of Daoism 东岳 東嶽 dōng yuè Mt Tai 泰山 in Shandong, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] 须弥 須彌 xū mí Mt Meru or Sumeru, sacred mountain in Buddhist and Jain tradition / Mt Xumi in Guyuan 固原[Gu4 yuan2], Ningxia, with many Buddhist cave statues 普陀山 pǔ tuó shān Mt Potala at Zhoushan 舟山市 in Zhejiang, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Guanyin 觀音|观音 (Avalokiteśvara) 神圣不可侵犯 神聖不可侵犯 shén shèng bù kě qīn fàn sacred / inviolable 大昭寺 dà zhāo sì Jokhang, main Buddhist temple in Lhasa, a sacred place of Tibetan Buddhism 圣典 聖典 shèng diǎn sacred writing / canon 北岳 北嶽 běi yuè Mt Heng 恆山|恒山[Heng2 Shan1] in Shanxi, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] 西岳 西嶽 xī yuè Mt Hua 華山|华山 in Shaanxi, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] 中岳 中嶽 zhōng yuè Mt Song 嵩山 in Henan, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4] 圣 聖 shèng (bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc) / (bound form) peerless individual / paragon (sage, saint, emperor, master of a skill etc) / (bound form) holy / sacred syn 熄 xī to extinguish / to put out (fire) / to quench / to stop burning / to go out (of fire, lamp etc) / to come to an end / to wither away / to die out / Taiwan pr. [xi2] syn 以毒攻毒 yǐ dú gōng dú to cure ills with poison (TCM) / to fight evil with evil / set a thief to catch a thief / to fight fire with fire 燧 suì (bound form) material or tool used to light a fire by means of friction or the sun's rays / (bound form) beacon fire (alarm signal in border regions), esp. one lit during daytime to produce smoke 离 離 lí to leave / to part from / to be away from / (in giving distances) from / without (sth) / independent of / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing fire / ☲ syn 开枪 開槍 kāi qiāng to open fire / to shoot a gun syn 解雇 解僱 jiě gù to fire / to sack / to dismiss / to terminate employment syn 开除 開除 kāi chú to expel (a member of an organization) / to fire (an employee) syn 发射 發射 fā shè to shoot (a projectile) / to fire (a rocket) / to launch / to emit (a particle) / to discharge / emanation / emission syn 警报 警報 jǐng bào (fire) alarm / alert signal / alarm / alert / warning 射击 射擊 shè jī to shoot / to fire (a gun) syn 开火 開火 kāi huǒ to open fire / to start shooting / to light the flame (for cooking) syn 消防 xiāo fáng firefighting / fire control 火灾 火災 huǒ zāi serious fire (in a city or a forest etc) syn 着火 著火 zháo huǒ to catch fire syn 发火 發火 fā huǒ to catch fire / to ignite / to detonate / to get angry syn 着 著 zháo to touch / to come in contact with / to feel / to be affected by / to catch fire / to burn / (coll.) to fall asleep / (after a verb) hitting the mark / succeeding in syn 大火 dà huǒ conflagration / large fire / CL:場|场[chang2] syn 点燃 點燃 diǎn rán to ignite / to set on fire / aflame syn 纵火 縱火 zòng huǒ to set on fire / to commit arson syn 火力 huǒ lì fire / firepower 点火 點火 diǎn huǒ to ignite / to light a fire / to agitate / to start an engine / ignition / fig. to stir up trouble syn 烧毁 燒燬 shāo huǐ to destroy (or be destroyed) by fire syn 惹火 rě huǒ to stir up the fire / fig. to provoke and offend people / to ruffle feathers 起火 qǐ huǒ to catch fire / to cook / to get angry syn 火柴 huǒ chái match (for lighting fire) / CL:根[gen1],盒[he2] syn 炒鱿鱼 炒魷魚 chǎo yóu yú (coll.) to fire sb / to sack sb syn 还击 還擊 huán jī to hit back / to return fire syn 熄灭 熄滅 xī miè to stop burning / to go out (of fire) / to die out / extinguished syn 放火 fàng huǒ to set on fire / to commit arson / to create a disturbance syn 停火 tíng huǒ to cease fire / ceasefire syn 灭火 滅火 miè huǒ to extinguish a fire / firefighting syn 火警 huǒ jǐng fire alarm syn 走火 zǒu huǒ to go off accidentally / to catch fire syn 火烧 火燒 huǒ shāo to set fire to / to burn down / burning hot / baked cake syn 救火 jiù huǒ to put out a fire / firefighting syn 停战 停戰 tíng zhàn to cease fire / to stop fighting / armistice / truce syn 玩火 wán huǒ to play with fire syn 防火 fáng huǒ to protect against fire 火势 火勢 huǒ shì intensity of a fire / lively / flourishing 取暖 qǔ nuǎn to warm oneself (by a fire etc) syn 焚烧 焚燒 fén shāo to burn / to set on fire syn 开炮 開砲 kāi pào to open fire syn 报警器 報警器 bào jǐng qì alarm (e.g. burglar or fire alarm) / warning device 灭火器 滅火器 miè huǒ qì fire extinguisher 辞退 辭退 cí tuì to dismiss / to discharge / to fire syn 赴汤蹈火 赴湯蹈火 fù tāng dǎo huǒ lit. to jump into scalding water and plunge into raging fire (idiom) / fig. to brave any danger / to go to any lengths (for a noble cause) syn 回击 回擊 huí jī to fight back / to return fire / to counterattack syn 火种 火種 huǒ zhǒng tinder / source of a fire / inflammable material / (fig.) spark (of a revolution etc) 火堆 huǒ duī bonfire / to open fire 焦头烂额 焦頭爛額 jiāo tóu làn é lit. badly burned about the head (from trying to put out a fire) (idiom) / fig. hard-pressed / under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc) syn 葬身 zàng shēn to bury a corpse / to be buried / (fig.) to die (at sea, in a fire etc) syn 火场 火場 huǒ chǎng the scene of a fire 出生入死 chū shēng rù sǐ from the cradle to the grave (idiom) / to go through fire and water / brave / willing to risk life and limb syn 火坑 huǒ kēng pit of fire / fig. living hell syn 燃烧弹 燃燒彈 rán shāo dàn fire bomb / incendiary device syn 烘焙 hōng bèi to cure by drying over a fire (tea, meat etc) / to bake syn 打枪 打槍 dǎ qiāng to fire a gun / to substitute for sb in sitting an examination syn 普罗米修斯 普羅米修斯 pǔ luó mǐ xiū sī Prometheus, a Titan god of fire in Greek mythology 引燃 yǐn rán to ignite / to start (a fire) / (fig.) to spark (debate, conflict etc) syn 鸣枪 鳴槍 míng qiāng to fire warning shots syn 焚毁 焚燬 fén huǐ to burn down / to destroy with fire syn 消防栓 xiāo fáng shuān fire hydrant syn 炉火 爐火 lú huǒ the fire of a stove 施放 shī fàng to fire / to discharge / to release (fireworks, smokescreen, poison gas, virus etc) syn 扑救 撲救 pū jiù firefighting / to extinguish a fire and save life and property / to dive (of goalkeeper in soccer) syn 打炮 dǎ pào to open fire with artillery / to set off firecrackers / to make one's stage debut / (slang) to have sex / to masturbate syn 烤火 kǎo huǒ to warm oneself at a fire 推波助澜 推波助瀾 tuī bō zhù lán to push the wave and add to the billows (idiom) / to add momentum / to encourage sth to get bigger / to add fuel to the fire syn 