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火山

huǒshān

volcano

A volcano with a red glow and smoke above its crater
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Characters in this word

火 huǒ

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

山 shān

Strokes
3
Radical
山 — mountain, hill, peak
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing

Example phrases

  • 休眠火山并不等于完全安全,地质部门仍需长期监测气体和震动。 Xiūmián huǒshān bìng bù děngyú wánquán ānquán, dìzhì bùmén réng xū chángqī jiāncè qìtǐ hé zhèndòng. A dormant volcano is not the same as a completely safe one; geological departments still need to monitor gases and tremors over the long term.
  • 这座火山已经几百年没有喷发了。 Zhè zuò huǒshān yǐjīng jǐ bǎi nián méiyǒu pēnfā le. This volcano has not erupted for several hundred years.
  • 我们在火山脚下的小镇住了一晚,早上去看了温泉。 Wǒmen zài huǒshān jiǎo xià de xiǎozhèn zhù le yì wǎn, zǎoshang qù kàn le wēnquán. We stayed a night in a small town at the foot of the volcano and went to see the hot springs in the morning.

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