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火药

huǒ yào

HSK 6 2-character word Traditional 火藥

What 火药 means

1. gunpowder

The characters in 火药

• 火huǒfire; urgent; ammunition
• 药yàoleaf of the iris; variant of 药

Example sentences

• 一点火花让火药爆炸。
  A spark caused the gunpowder to explode.
• 你们知道谁发明了火药吗？
  Do you know who invented gunpowder?

Words starting with 火药

• 火药味huǒ yào wèismell of gunpowder; (fig.) combative tone; belligerence
• 火药味甚浓huǒ yào wèi shèn nóngstrong smell of gunpowder; fig. tense situation; standoff

Words containing 火药

• 黑火药hēi huǒ yàoblack powder (traditional gunpowder)

Where 火药 is taught

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

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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