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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
过火
to go too far; to go overboard (in words or actions)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to go too far; to go overboard (in words or actions)
02
over the top; excessive
03
burned
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 过火 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 过火 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I think you went too far.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 过火.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 过火.
Directly before
- 您过火1
- 生过火1
Directly after
- 过火了1
- 过火吗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 过火
What does 过火 mean in Chinese?
过火 (guòhuǒ) means to go too far; to go overboard (in words or actions).
How do you pronounce 过火?
过火 is pronounced guòhuǒ.
Is 过火 an HSK word?
过火 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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