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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

火把

huǒbǎ

torch

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

torch

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 火把 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 火把 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

那场大火把整个小镇烧成了灰烬。nà chǎng dà huǒ bǎ zhěng gè xiǎo zhèn shāo chéng le huī jìn。

The big fire reduced the whole town to ashes.

举起火把!jǔ qǐ huǒ bǎ!

No published English translation for this sentence.

科学无分国界,因为知识是人类的家当,照亮世界的火把。kē xué wú fēn guó jiè, yīn wèi zhī shí shì rén lèi de jiā dàng, zhào liàng shì jiè de huǒ bǎ。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 火把.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 火把.

Directly before

  • 的火把1
  • 大火把1
  • 举起火把1

Directly after

  • 火把整个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 火把

What does 火把 mean in Chinese?

火把 (huǒbǎ) means torch.

How do you pronounce 火把?

火把 is pronounced huǒbǎ.

Is 火把 an HSK word?

火把 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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