烟火 (yān huǒ): smoke and fire; cooked food; (literary) beacon fire; (literary) descendants; posterity; fireworks

Meaning & Stroke Order

HSK 7noun

Word info

Pinyin
Meaning: smoke and fire; cooked food; (literary) beacon fire; (literary) descendants; posterity; fireworks
Characters: 2
Part of speech: noun
HSK level: HSK 7

Full definitions

smoke and fire
cooked food
posterity
fireworks
(literary) beacon fire
(literary) descendants

Chinese explanation

指做饭时烧火产生的烟和火，引申为炊烟，代表人家或生活气息
也指节日燃放的烟花和爆竹，如烟火表演
还可比喻战火或火灾等灾害。

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Character breakdown

HSK 4

cigarette or pipe tobacco

HSK 4

fire

Example sentences

On New Year's Eve, every household's kitchen is filled with the smoke and aroma of cooking, and the whole village is permeated with the smell of food.

When the police arrived at the scene, the warehouse was still burning, and thick smoke and fire kept pouring out of the windows, choking people and making it impossible to get close.

Grandpa said that when he was young, his hometown was still very poor. When it was time to cook, wisps of smoke would rise from the whole village. Now you can no longer see that scene.

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