torch

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
火 meaning component

  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

巨 sound component

  Sound component

  

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Definitions

 

torch

Most common words with 炬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

火炬

a torch

torch

付之一炬

to put to the torch (idiom)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.4187% of movies

2431st most common character in movies

3429th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+70AC


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