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大火 (dà huǒ): meaning and stroke order

大火 (dà huǒ) means conflagration; large fire, 场.

大火

Simplified
大火
Traditional
大火 (same form)
Pinyin
dà huǒ

Stroke order of 大火

大

  • dà big; large; great; older (than another person)
  • dài see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

火

  • Huǒ surname Huo
  • huǒ fire; urgent
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 大火

  1. dà huǒ
    • conflagration; large fire
    • CL:場|场[chang2]

Radicals of the characters

大
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 3 strokes · built from 一 and 人
火
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 4 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

大火 in our stories

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  • 大火灭了，洪水退了，人们终于又过上了平静的日子。

    dàhuǒ miè le hóngshuǐ tuì le rénmen zhōngyú yòu guò shàng le píngjìng de rìzi

    The fires went out, the floods receded, and people could at last live in peace again.

    From the story Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 大火烧了三天三夜，却始终没有人走出来。火灭后，人们在一棵烧焦的柳树下，发现了母子两人的遗体。

    dàhuǒ shāo le sān tiān sān yè què shǐzhōng méiyǒu rén zǒu chūlai huǒ miè hòu rénmen zài yì kē shāojiāo de liǔshù xià fāxiàn le mǔzǐ liǎng rén de yítǐ

    The fire burned for three days and three nights, yet nobody ever came out. When it died down, they found mother and son dead beneath a scorched willow.

    From the story Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 大火

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).