洋火
yáng huǒ
Pinyin

Definition

洋火
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yáng huǒ
  1. (coll.) matches (old)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

shàng huǒ
  1. 1 to get angry
  2. 2 to suffer from excessive internal heat (TCM)
yáng
  1. 1 ocean
  2. 2 vast
  3. 3 foreign
  4. 4 silver dollar or coin
yáng yì
  1. 1 brimming with
  2. 2 steeped in
yáng cōng
  1. 1 onion (Allium cepa)
  2. 2 bulb onion
hǎi yáng
  1. 1 ocean
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (20)

不到火候不揭锅
bù dào huǒ hòu bù jiē guō
  1. 1 don't act until the time is ripe (idiom)
刀山火海
dāo shān huǒ hǎi
  1. 1 lit. mountains of daggers and seas of flames
  2. 2 fig. extreme danger (idiom)
厝火积薪
cuò huǒ jī xīn
  1. 1 lit. to put a fire under a pile of firewood (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. hidden danger
  3. 3 imminent danger
喜气洋洋
xǐ qì yáng yáng
  1. 1 full of joy (idiom); jubilation
土洋结合
tǔ yáng jié hé
  1. 1 combining native and foreign methods (idiom); sophisticated and many-sided

Sample Sentences

洋火
yánghuǒ
match
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