Meaning of 火药
Definitions from CC-CEDICT.
huǒyào
- gunpowder
火药 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
你们知道谁发明了火药吗？
Do you know who invented gunpowder?
一点火花让火药爆炸。
A spark led the gunpowder to explode.
Stroke order for each character
Open a character for its meaning, components and more words.
火 huǒ · fire · 4 strokes
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药 yào · medicine · 9 strokes
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Related words
Words that share a character with 火药.
| 火车 | huǒchē | train |
| 药片 | yàopiàn | a (medicine) pill or tablet |
| 药店 | yàodiàn | pharmacy; drugstore |
| 药水 | yàoshuǐ | medicine in liquid form; bottled medicine |
| 药物 | yàowù | medicaments; pharmaceuticals |
| 着火 | zháohuǒ | to catch fire |
| 火灾 | huǒzāi | serious fire (in a city or a forest etc) |
| 火腿 | huǒtuǐ | ham |
| 火柴 | huǒchái | match (for lighting fire) |
| 中药 | zhōngyào | traditional Chinese medicine |
| 火箭 | huǒjiàn | rocket |
| 炸药 | zhàyào | explosive; blasting agent; dynamite |
Questions about 火药
What does 火药 mean?
火药 (huǒyào) means "gunpowder" and is used as a noun.
How do you write 火药?
火药 is made of 2 characters: 火 (4 strokes), 药 (9 strokes). That is 13 strokes in total.
Is 火药 an HSK word?
Yes. 火药 is on the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.
How is 火药 written in traditional Chinese?
In traditional characters, 火药 is written 火藥.