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防火墙

fánghuǒqiáng

firewall; fire wall

A red brick wall holds back flames, a laptop safe behind
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Characters in this word

防 fáng

Strokes
6
Radical
阝 — place, town, city
Made of
阝 place, town, city 方 square, rectangle
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

火 huǒ

Strokes
4
Radical
火 — fire, flame
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
More about the character 火

墙 qiáng

Strokes
14
Radical
土 — soil, earth
Made of
土 soil, earth 啬 miserly, stingy, thrifty
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 公司升级防火墙后,异常登录请求明显减少。 Gōngsī shēngjí fánghuǒqiáng hòu, yìcháng dēnglù qǐngqiú míngxiǎn jiǎnshǎo. After the company upgraded its firewall, abnormal login requests decreased noticeably.
  • 电脑里装了防火墙,可以挡住不安全的网站。 Diànnǎo lǐ zhuāng le fánghuǒqiáng, kěyǐ dǎng zhù bù ānquán de wǎngzhàn. A firewall is installed on the computer and it blocks unsafe websites.
  • 公司的网络有一道防火墙,外面的人很难进来。 Gōngsī de wǎngluò yǒu yí dào fánghuǒqiáng, wàimiàn de rén hěn nán jìnlái. The company network has a firewall, and outsiders can hardly get in.

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