Hold fire.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
停火
to cease fire
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to cease fire
02
ceasefire
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 停火 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 停火 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
A ceasefire was declared.
A ceasefire was declared.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 停火.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 停火.
Directly before
- 宣布停火2
Directly after
- 停火了1
- 停火被1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 停火
What does 停火 mean in Chinese?
停火 (tínghuǒ) means to cease fire.
How do you pronounce 停火?
停火 is pronounced tínghuǒ.
Is 停火 an HSK word?
停火 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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