上火
Chinese
up; on; on top up; on; on top; upon; first; previous or last; upper; higher; above; previous; to climb; to go into; to go up |
fire; angry; fierce fire; angry; fierce; fiery; thriving | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (上火) | 上 | 火 | |
| simp. #(上火) | 上 | 火 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): soeng5 fo2
- Hakka
- Jin (Wiktionary): son3 hue2
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiūⁿ-hé / chiūⁿ-hóe / chiōⁿ-hóe / chiǔⁿ-hér
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 6zaon-hu
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: shànghuǒ
- Zhuyin: ㄕㄤˋ ㄏㄨㄛˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: shànghuǒ
- Wade–Giles: shang4-huo3
- Yale: shàng-hwǒ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shanqhuoo
- Palladius: шанхо (šanxo)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʂɑŋ⁵¹ xu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: soeng5 fo2
- Yale: séuhng fó
- Cantonese Pinyin: soeng5 fo2
- Guangdong Romanization: sêng5 fo2
- Sinological IPA (key): /sœːŋ¹³ fɔː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Hakka
- Jin
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiūⁿ-hé
- Tâi-lô: tsiūnn-hé
- Phofsit Daibuun: cviuxhea
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡siũ³³⁻¹¹ he⁵³/
- IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siũ²²⁻²¹ he⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiūⁿ-hóe
- Tâi-lô: tsiūnn-hué
- Phofsit Daibuun: cviuxhoea
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siũ³³⁻²¹ hue⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiōⁿ-hóe
- Tâi-lô: tsiōnn-hué
- Phofsit Daibuun: cvioixhoea
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siɔ̃²²⁻²¹ hue⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiǔⁿ-hér
- Tâi-lô: tsiǔnn-hér
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siũ²² hə⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei)
- Wu
Verb
上火
- (traditional Chinese medicine) to suffer from excessive internal heat; to become inflamed; to have inflammation
- (literary or Southern Min, dialectal Wu) to light (a fire); to ignite; to light up
- 群臣百有餘人皆絕去其冠纓而上火，卒盡懽而罷。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: c. 77 B.C.E., 劉向 (Liu Xiang), 《說苑》 (Garden of Stories), chapter 6
- Qúnchén bǎi yǒuyú rén jiē jué qù qí guānyīng ér shànghuǒ, zú jìn huān ér bà. [Pinyin]
- After more than 100 ministers removed the cords which held their headpieces in place, all of the candles were relit. All of the king's subjects were happy, and that was the end of it.
群臣百有余人皆绝去其冠缨而上火，卒尽欢而罢。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- (dialectal Mandarin) to get angry
Synonyms
- (to suffer from excessive internal heat): (Cantonese) 熱氣／热气; (Teochew) 浮火; (Wu, Xiang) 提火
- (to get angry):
- 使性地 (sái-sìng-tē) (Hokkien)
- 使性子 (shǐ xìngzi)
- 使氣 / 使气 (shǐqì)
- 使癖 (Hokkien)
- 使頸 / 使颈 (sai2 geng2) (Cantonese)
- 冒煙 / 冒烟 (màoyān) (colloquial)
- 動怒 / 动怒 (dòngnù)
- 受氣 / 受气 (siū-khì) (Hokkien)
- 嗔怒 (chēnnù)
- 大怒 (dànù)
- 奭 (shì) (literary, or in compounds)
- 威怒 (wēinù) (literary)
- 尥蹶子 (liàojuězi)
- 𡳞火 (Hokkien, vulgar)
- 弄性子 (nòng xìngzi) (colloquial)
- 忿懥 (fènzhì) (literary)
- 怒 (nù) (literary, or in compounds)
- 急 (jí)
- 急眼 (jíyǎn) (colloquial)
- 惱怒 / 恼怒 (nǎonù)
- 惹氣 / 惹气 (rěqì)
- 惱火 / 恼火 (nǎohuǒ)
- 戳火 (cuah4 hue2) (Jin)
- 掛氣 / 挂气 (guàqì) (dialectal)
- 暴怒 (bàonù) (to explode in anger)
- 有氣 / 有气 (yǒuqì)
- 氣 / 气
- 氣惱 / 气恼 (qìnǎo)
- 火大 (huǒdà)
- 火癀 (Hokkien)
- 燒色 / 烧色 (chiáu-să̤) (Northern Min)
- 爆氣 / 爆气
- 犯脾氣 / 犯脾气 (fàn píqi) (colloquial)
- 狂怒 (kuángnù) (to explode in anger)
- 生氣 / 生气 (shēngqì)
- 癀發 / 癀发 (Hokkien)
- 發呴 / 发呴 (7faq 1heu) (Wu)
- 發性地 / 发性地 (Hokkien)
- 發火 / 发火 (fāhuǒ)
- 發癀 / 发癀 (Xiamen Hokkien)
- 發老脾 / 发老脾 (faat3 lou5 pei4-2) (Cantonese)
- 發脾四 / 发脾四 (faat3 pei4 sei3) (Cantonese)
- 發脾氣 / 发脾气 (fā píqi)
- 發臉 / 发脸 (Hokkien)
- 發輦 / 发辇 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
- 發飆 / 发飙 (fābiāo) (colloquial)
- 盛怒 (shèngnù)
- 瞋恚 (chēnhuì) (Classical Chinese)
- 耍態度 / 耍态度 (shuǎ tàidù) (colloquial)
- 耍脾氣 / 耍脾气 (shuǎ píqi)
- 苦氣 / 苦气 (Hokkien)
- 見氣 / 见气 (Yangzhou Mandarin, Huizhou, Wu, Xiang, Pingxiang Gan)
- 起性 (Hokkien)
- 起性地 (Hokkien)
- 起火
- 起花光 (kī-huă-guŏng) (Eastern Min)
- 震怒 (zhènnù)
- 鬧脾氣 / 闹脾气 (nào píqi)
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “to suffer from excessive internal heat”):
See also
- (to suffer from excessive internal heat):
References
- 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “上火”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 591.