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炸药

zhà yào

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 炸藥

炸药 (zhà yào) means "explosive (material)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 炸药 means

1. explosive; blasting agent; dynamite

The characters in 炸药

• 炸zhàto burst; to explode; to blow up; to bomb; (colloquial) to fly into a rage
• 药yàoleaf of the iris; variant of 药

Example sentences

• 我们在敌后集结区伏击了他们数百台新型 J-37 机器人，并透过派出一群携带炸药的绵羊穿过他们的营地，将它们全部摧毁。
  We ambushed several hundred of their new J-37 robots behind enemy lines in a staging area and we destroyed them all by sending a herd of explosive laden sheep through their encampment.

Words starting with 炸药

• 炸药奖Zhà yào jiǎng(slang) Nobel Prize

Words containing 炸药

• 黄色炸药huáng sè zhà yàotrinitrotoluene (TNT), C6H2(NO2)3CH3
• 塑胶炸药sù jiāo zhà yàoplastic explosive

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