Open fire!
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
开火
to open fire; to start shooting
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to open fire; to start shooting
02
to light the flame (for cooking)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 开火 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 开火 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Open fire!
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 开火.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 开火.
Directly before
- 立刻开火1
- 我要开火1
Directly after
- 开火了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 开火
What does 开火 mean in Chinese?
开火 (kāihuǒ) means to open fire; to start shooting.
How do you pronounce 开火?
开火 is pronounced kāihuǒ.
Is 开火 an HSK word?
开火 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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