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烟花

yān huā

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 煙花

烟花 (yān huā) means "fireworks; prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 烟花 means

1. fireworks
2. prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater)

The characters in 烟花

• 烟yāncigarette or pipe tobacco; smoke; mist
• 花huāflower; blossom; fancy pattern

Example sentences

• 昨晚，烟花厂发生了爆炸。
  Zuówǎn, yānhuāchǎng fāshēng le bàozhà.
  Yesterday, an explosion occurred at the fireworks factory.

Words starting with 烟花

• 烟花债yān huā zhàiinvolved in a love affair
• 烟花场yān huā chǎngbrothel (esp. in Yuan theater)
• 烟花女yān huā nǚprostitute (esp. in Yuan theater)
• 烟花市yān huā shì(old) red-light district; brothel
• 烟花厂yān huā chǎngfirework factory
• 烟花行院yān huā háng yuànbrothel (esp. in Yuan theater)
• 烟花风月yān huā fēng yuèrefers to lovemaking (idiom)
• 烟花阵yān huā zhènbrothel (esp. in Yuan theater)
• 烟花寨yān huā zhàibrothel (esp. in Yuan theater)
• 烟花粉黛yān huā fěn dàiwoman; prostitute; lovemaking
• 烟花爆竹yān huā bào zhúfireworks (i.e. pyrotechnic devices, not the display they produce)
• 烟花簿yān huā bùcatalog of prostitutes (esp. in Yuan theater)
• 烟花巷yān huā xiàngred-light district
• 烟花柳巷yān huā liǔ xiàngred-light district

Words containing 烟花

• 柳烟花雾liǔ yān huā wùlit. willow scent and mist of blossom (idiom); scene full of the delights of spring
• 泼烟花pō yān huālow-class prostitute

Where 烟花 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yā (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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