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消防

xiāo fáng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

消防 (xiāo fáng) means "firefighting". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 消防 means

1. firefighting
2. fire control

The characters in 消防

• 消xiāoto diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time)
• 防fángto protect; to defend; to guard against

Example sentences

• 请叫消防员。
  Qǐng jiào xiāofángyuán.
  Please call the fire department.
• 消防队员把火扑灭了。
  Xiāofángduìyuán bǎ huǒ pūmiè le.
  The fire fighters put out the fire.
• 消防局在警察局的旁边。
  Xiāofángjú zài jǐngchájú de pángbiān.
  The fire station is next to the police station.
• 消防队很快就把大火扑熄。
  Xiāofángduì hěn kuài jiù bǎ dàhuǒ pū xī.
  The firemen quickly extinguished the blaze.
• 消防队员很快就把火扑灭了。
  Xiāofángduìyuán hěn kuài jiù bǎ huǒ pūmiè le.
  The firemen soon put out the fire.
• 我的梦想是成为一名消防员。
  My dream is to become a firefighter.

Words starting with 消防

• 消防车xiāo fáng chēfire engine; fire truck
• 消防队xiāo fáng duìfire department; fire brigade
• 消防员xiāo fáng yuánfirefighter; fireman
• 消防局xiāo fáng júfire department
• 消防通道xiāo fáng tōng dàofire exit; (firefighting) fire lane
• 消防队员xiāo fáng duì yuánfireman
• 消防署xiāo fáng shǔfire station
• 消防栓xiāo fáng shuānfire hydrant

Where 消防 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xiàng–xiào (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiāo fáng correctly.
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