The house burnt to ashes.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
灰烬
ashes
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
ashes
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 灰烬 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 灰烬 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The fire reduced the house to ashes.
Our school was reduced to ashes.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 灰烬.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 灰烬.
Directly before
- 了灰烬4
- 烧成灰烬2
Directly after
- 灰烬了2
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 灰烬
What does 灰烬 mean in Chinese?
灰烬 (huījìn) means ashes.
How do you pronounce 灰烬?
灰烬 is pronounced huījìn.
Is 灰烬 an HSK word?
灰烬 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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