火上澆油 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 火上浇油 huǒshàngjiāoyóu ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄕㄤˋ ㄐㄧㄠ ㄧㄡˊ to pour oil on the fire (idiom) fig. to aggravate a situation to enrage people and make matters worse Character by character 火(huǒ)surname Huo 上(shàng)up 澆(jiāo)pour liquid 油(yóu)oil A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0