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爆炸

bào zhà

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

爆炸 (bào zhà) means "explosion". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 爆炸 means

1. explosion
2. to explode
3. to blow up
4. to detonate

The characters in 爆炸

• 爆bàoto explode; to burst; to stir-fry briefly; to quick-boil
• 炸zhàto burst; to explode; to blow up; to bomb; (colloquial) to fly into a rage

Example sentences

• 爆炸！
  Explode!
• 那些是爆炸物吗？
  Nàxiē shì bàozhàwù ma?
  Are those explosives?
• 大爆炸致死六人。
  Dàbàozhà zhìsǐ liù rén.
  The huge explosion killed six people.
• 它发出巨响爆炸了。
  Tā fāchū jùxiǎng bàozhà le.
  It exploded with a loud noise.
• 爆炸的原因是什幺？
  What was the cause of the explosion?
• 汤姆在爆炸中受伤。
  Tom was injured in the blast.

Words starting with 爆炸

• 爆炸性bào zhà xìngexplosive; fig. shocking
• 爆炸力bào zhà lìexplosive force; strength of an explosion
• 爆炸物bào zhà wùexplosive (material)
• 爆炸头bào zhà tóuafro (hairstyle)

Words containing 爆炸

• 大爆炸Dà bào zhàBig Bang (cosmology)
• 核爆炸hé bào zhànuclear explosion
• 地下核爆炸dì xià hé bào zhànuclear underground burst; underground nuclear explosion
• 地面核爆炸dì miàn hé bào zhàsurface nuclear explosion
• 核爆炸装置hé bào zhà zhuāng zhìnuclear explosion device
• 水下核爆炸shuǐ xià hé bào zhànuclear underwater burst; underwater nuclear explosion
• 自杀式爆炸zì shā shì bào zhàsuicide bombing
• 大型空爆炸弹dà xíng kōng bào zhà dànMassive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB), a powerful American bomb
• 简易爆炸装置jiǎn yì bào zhà zhuāng zhìimprovised explosive device (IED)
• 塑胶爆炸物sù jiāo bào zhà wùplastic explosive

Where 爆炸 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · bào–bǎo (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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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bào zhà correctly.
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