The fire spread out in a fan-shape.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
火势
intensity of a fire
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
intensity of a fire
02
lively
03
flourishing
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 火势 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 火势 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
It was before dawn that they got the fire under control.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 火势.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 火势.
Directly before
- 了火势1
Directly after
- 火势以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 火势
What does 火势 mean in Chinese?
火势 (huǒshì) means intensity of a fire.
How do you pronounce 火势?
火势 is pronounced huǒshì.
Is 火势 an HSK word?
火势 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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