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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 火药味

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
火药味 huǒ yào wèi - smell of gunpowder
- (fig.) combative tone
- belligerence

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 20,879 34,240 36,514

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
huǒ- surname Huo
huǒ- fire
- urgent
- ammunition
- fiery or flaming
- internal heat (Chinese medicine)
- hot (popular)
- classifier for military units (old)
- Kangxi radical 86
yào- leaf of the iris
- variant of 藥|药[yao4]
yào- medicine
- drug
- substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting)
- CL:種|种[zhong3],服[fu4],味[wei4]
- to poison
wèi- taste
- smell
- (fig.) (noun suffix) feel
- quality
- sense
- (TCM) classifier for ingredients of a medicine prescription

Other Words Containing 火药味

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
火药味 - - 20,879 34,240 36,514