As he had no way of making fire, he ate the fish raw.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
生火
to make a fire; to light a fire
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to make a fire; to light a fire
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 生火 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 生火 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Ben learned to make a fire without matches.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 生火.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 生火.
Directly before
- 能生火1
- 没法生火1
- 里生火1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 生火
What does 生火 mean in Chinese?
生火 (shēnghuǒ) means to make a fire; to light a fire.
How do you pronounce 生火?
生火 is pronounced shēnghuǒ.
Is 生火 an HSK word?
生火 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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