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煤气

méi qì

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

煤气 (méi qì) means "coal gas; gas (fuel)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 煤气 means

1. coal gas
2. gas (fuel)

The characters in 煤气

• 煤méicoal
• 气qìgas; air; smell; weather

Example sentences

• 煤气没了。
  We ran out of gas.
• 把煤气关了！
  Bǎ méiqì guān le!
  Turn off the gas.
• 我该在哪儿付煤气费？
  Where do I pay for the gas?
• 出门前记得检查一下煤气是否关好了。
  Chūmén qián jìde jiǎnchá yīxià méiqì shìfǒu guān hǎo le.
  Before you go out remember to check the gas is turned off.
• 只能说，致命煤气的雾团中，也定会有阳光的。
  Zhǐnéng shuō, zhìmìng méiqì de wù tuán zhōng, yě dìng huì yǒu yángguāng de.
  So it seems that cloud of odorless deadly gas had a silver lining after all.

Sounds the same

Read méi qì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 霉气a moldy smell; damp and rotten; fig. rotten bad luck

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read méi qì correctly.
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