火候 Save Sign in to save words On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. huǒhou ㄏㄨㄛˇ ˙ㄏㄡ heat control mastery fig. crucial moment fig. Character by character 火(huǒ)fire 候(hou)wait A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT