火药

火药 huǒyào in a sentence

Gunpowder

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

火药 (huǒyào) means Gunpowder. Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

会场的气氛充满了 火药 味。

Huìchǎng de qìfēn chōngmǎn le huǒyào wèi.

The atmosphere in the hall was thick with tension.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 火药

火药 是中国古代的四大发明之一。

Huǒyào shì Zhōngguó gǔdài de sì dà fāmíng zhī yī.

Gunpowder is one of ancient China's four great inventions.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 火药

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How is 火药 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 火药 (huǒyào, "Gunpowder"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 火药 an HSK word?

Yes — 火药 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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The dictionary page for 火药 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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