走火

走火

Chinese

		to walk; to go; to move to walk; to go; to move; to leave	fire; angry; fierce fire; angry; fierce; fiery; thriving
trad. (走火)		走	火
simp. #(走火)		走	火

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǒuhuǒ

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄡˇ ㄏㄨㄛˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zau² fo²
• Min Nan (POJ): cháu-hér / cháu-hé / cháu-hóe

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zǒuhuǒ [Phonetic: zóuhuǒ]
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄡˇ ㄏㄨㄛˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zǒuhuǒ
    • Wade–Giles: tsou³-huo³
    • Yale: dzǒu-hwǒ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzoouhuoo
    • Palladius: цзоухо (czouxo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡soʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ xwɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zau² fo²
    • Yale: jáu fó
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau² fo²
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeo² fo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯³⁵ fɔː³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cháu-hér
    • Tâi-lô: tsáu-hér
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hə⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Taipei, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cháu-hé
    • Tâi-lô: tsáu-hé
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zaw'hea
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /t͡sau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ he⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cháu-hóe
    • Tâi-lô: tsáu-hué
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zaw'hoea
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hue⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sau⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hue⁴¹/

Verb

走火

1. (electrical engineering) to give off sparks
2. (electrical engineering) to have a short circuit
3. to go off by accident (of a gun); to misfire
4. to overstate
5. be on fire
6. to flee for one's life from a fire disaster

Synonyms

• (to misfire): (Min Nan) 脫雞／脱鸡

Derived terms

走火入魔 (zǒuhuǒrùmó)

擦槍走火／擦枪走火 (cāqiāngzǒuhuǒ)