火線

火线
huǒxiàn
  1. firing line (battle)
  2. live electrical wire

CEDICT

  1. (computing) FireWire
  2. (military) front line; front (in a war)
  3. FireWire
  4. front line; front (in a war)
  5. live wire; hot wire

Wiktionary

  1. 槍炮、子彈發射所及的地方。引申為緊張對峙的交戰區前線。
  2. 輸送電流的電線。通常指直流電路中接正極的導線。

重編國語辭典

Homographs

火線 Huǒxiàn FireWire (IEEE 1394 data-transfer interface)

Entry Composition

1 火 huǒ
  1. fire
  2. urgent
  3. ammunition
  4. fiery or flaming
  5. internal heat (Chinese medicine)
  6. hot (popular)
  7. classifier for military units (old)
  8. Kangxi radical 86
2 線 xiàn
  1. thread
  2. string
  3. wire
  4. line
  5. (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city)

classifiers: 條, 股, 根

Containing this entry

導火線 dǎohuǒxiàn
  1. fuse (for explosives)
  2. (fig.) proximate cause
  3. the last straw