熄火

Chinese

(v) extinguish; quench; go out (of fire)
fire; angry; fierce
fire; angry; fierce; fiery; thriving
 
trad. (熄火)
simp. #(熄火)

Pronunciation


Verb

熄⫽火 (verb-object)

  1. to extinguish a fire; to put out a conflagration; to quench a fire; to douse something burning; to blow out a fire (such as in a boiler in factories, steamships, etc.)
  2. (of a car) to stall
  3. to stop an operation
  4. to turn off a lamp or light; to blow out a lamp or light

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Noun

熄火

  1. (Medan Hokkien) an electrical power outage
    今日熄火 [Hokkien, trad. and simp.]
    Kin-ji̍t óa--ê ūi ū sit-hóe. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
    Today, my place has a power outage.

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