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烧毁

shāo huǐ

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

烧毁 (shāo huǐ) means "to burn; to burn down". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 烧毁 means

1. to destroy (or be destroyed) by fire

The characters in 烧毁

• 烧shāoto burn; to set on fire; to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc); to braise
• 毁huǐto destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander

Example sentences

• 十间房屋被烧毁了。
  Ten houses were burned down.
• 著名的酒店几乎被大火烧毁了。
  Zhùmíng de jiǔdiàn jīhū bèi dàhuǒ shāohuǐ le.
  The famous hotel was practically destroyed by a large fire.
• 着名的酒店几乎被大火烧毁了。
  The famous hotel was practically destroyed by a large fire.
• 我的书有过半数被昨晚的那场火灾烧毁了。
  Wǒ de shū yǒu guòbàn shù bèi zuówǎn de nà chǎng huǒzāi shāo huǐ le.
  More than half of my books were destroyed by the fire last night.
• 昨晚发生了一场火灾，三栋房屋被烧毁了。
  A fire broke out last night and three houses were burnt down.
• 哥伦布曾经在当地人偷了他的鹦鹉之后决定完全地烧毁整个村庄。因为他不能焚烧他们的水，所以他感到失望。于是他发明了氟。
  Gēlúnbù céngjīng zài dāngdì rén tōu le tā de yīngwǔ zhīhòu juédìng wánquán de shāo huǐ zhěnggè cūnzhuāng. yīnwèi tā bù néng fénshāo tāmen de shuǐ, suǒyǐ tā gǎndào shīwàng. Yúshì tā fāmíng le fú.
  Christopher Columbus once decided to burn absolutely everything in an entire village after one of the natives stole his parrot. He was disappointed that he couldn't burn their water. So he invented fluorine.

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shāo huǐ correctly.
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