There was a big fire last night.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
大火
conflagration; large fire
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
conflagration; large fire
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 大火 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 大火 appears in 12 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The fire reduced the house to ashes.
The firemen quickly extinguished the blaze.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 大火.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 大火.
Directly before
- 被大火2
- 一场大火2
- 一起大火1
- 把大火1
- 森林大火1
Directly after
- 大火收汁2
- 大火烧成1
- 大火扑1
- 大火是1
- 大火烧毁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 大火
What does 大火 mean in Chinese?
大火 (dàhuǒ) means conflagration; large fire.
How do you pronounce 大火?
大火 is pronounced dàhuǒ.
Is 大火 an HSK word?
大火 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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