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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
起火
to catch fire
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to catch fire
02
to cook
03
to get angry
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 起火 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 起火 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Upon arrival, the firefighters discovered the house in flames.
The large old walnut tree on the hill was struck by lightning and caught fire.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 起火.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 起火.
Directly before
- 大楼起火1
- 能起火1
- 了起火1
- 并起火1
Directly after
- 起火了2
- 起火原因1
- 起火的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 起火
What does 起火 mean in Chinese?
起火 (qǐhuǒ) means to catch fire.
How do you pronounce 起火?
起火 is pronounced qǐhuǒ.
Is 起火 an HSK word?
起火 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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