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灯火

dēnghuǒ

lights

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

lights

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 灯火 actually appears in real sentences.

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

广场被鲜明的灯火照亮。guǎng chǎng bèi xiān míng de dēng huǒ zhào liàng。

The square was illuminated by bright lights.

夜幕降临,城镇的灯火亮起来了。远远望去宛若一颗宝石。yè mù jiàng lín, chéng zhèn de dēng huǒ liàng qǐ lái le。 yuǎn yuǎn wàng qù wǎn ruò yī kē bǎo shí。

No published English translation for this sentence.

贫苦的人,煮汤没有盐,烧饭没有柴火,夜里没有灯火,冬天的夜里没有被子。pín kǔ de rén, zhǔ tāng méi yǒu yán, shāo fàn méi yǒu chái huǒ, yè lǐ méi yǒu dēng huǒ, dōng tiān de yè lǐ méi yǒu bèi zi。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 灯火.

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

Directly before

  • 的灯火2
  • 没有灯火1

Directly after

  • 灯火照亮1
  • 灯火亮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 灯火

What does 灯火 mean in Chinese?

灯火 (dēnghuǒ) means lights.

How do you pronounce 灯火?

灯火 is pronounced dēnghuǒ.

Is 灯火 an HSK word?

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

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