烈火乾柴

lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom); inferno in a woodpile / fig. consuming passion between lovers

ardent / intense / fierce / stern / upright / to give one's life for a noble cause / exploits / achievements

raging inferno / blaze

fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

old variant of 乾[qian2]

surname Qian

one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing heaven / male principle / ☰ / ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)

variant of 乾[qian2]

dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder

firewood / lean (of meat) / thin (of a person)