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烟火

yān huǒ

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

烟火 (yān huǒ) means "smoke and fire; fireworks". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 烟火 means

1. smoke and fire
2. cooked food
3. literarybeacon fire
4. literarydescendants; posterity

Other readings

烟火 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• yān huofireworks

The characters in 烟火

• 烟yāncigarette or pipe tobacco; smoke; mist
• 火huǒfire; urgent; ammunition

Example sentences

• 他就像七月四日的烟火一样耀眼！我心想：「哇！」
  He was bright like the 4th of July! "Wow!", I thought!

Words starting with 烟火

• 烟火气yān huǒ qìcooking smells; (fig.) lively atmosphere

Words containing 烟火

• 不食人间烟火bù shí rén jiān yān huǒotherworldly; detached from the mundane concerns of ordinary life

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