A spark caused the gunpowder to explode.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
火药
gunpowder
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
gunpowder
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 火药 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 火药 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Do you know who invented gunpowder?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 火药.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 火药.
Directly before
- 了火药1
- 让火药1
Directly after
- 火药吗1
- 火药爆炸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 火药
What does 火药 mean in Chinese?
火药 (huǒyào) means gunpowder.
How do you pronounce 火药?
火药 is pronounced huǒyào.
Is 火药 an HSK word?
火药 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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