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火柴

huǒ chái

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Measure word 根、盒

火柴 (huǒ chái) means "match (for lighting fire)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 火柴 means

1. match (for lighting fire)

The characters in 火柴

• 火huǒfire; urgent; ammunition
• 柴cháifirewood; lean (of meat); thin (of a person)

Example sentences

• 您有火柴吗？
  Nín yǒu huǒchái ma?
  Do you have a match?
• 他划了一根火柴。
  He struck a match.
• 这收音机不比火柴盒大。
  This radio is no bigger than a matchbox.
• 这根湿掉的火柴点不出火的。
  This damp match won't light.
• 汤姆用尽了火柴，不能点火了。
  Tāngmǔ yòngjìn le huǒchái, bù néng diǎnhuǒ le.
  Tom ran out of matches so he couldn't light the fire.
• 你有火柴吗？很抱歉，我不抽烟。
  Nǐ yǒu huǒchái ma? hěn bàoqiàn, wǒ bù chōuyān.
  Do you have a match? I'm sorry, but I don't smoke.

Words starting with 火柴

• 火柴人huǒ chái rénstick figure; stick person

Words containing 火柴

• 引火柴yǐn huǒ cháikindling
• 纸火柴zhǐ huǒ cháimatches made of cardboard

Where 火柴 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Household, Kitchen & Daily Life (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read huǒ chái correctly.
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