The cause of the fire was unknown.
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火灾
Traditional: 火災
huǒ zāi
HSK 3.0 · 5
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huǒ zāi · fo2 zoi1 (Jyutping)
- serious fire (in a city or a forest etc)
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Character breakdown
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
A fire broke out the day before yesterday.
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