野火

yěhuǒ

noun #24,987

Meanings

1 wildfire
2 bushfire
3 prairie fire

Characters

wild, field, countryside

Examples

一场野火烧毁了大片森林。

Yī chǎng yěhuǒ shāohuǐle dà piàn sēnlín.

A wildfire burned a large area of forest.

野火烧不尽，春风吹又生。

Yěhuǒ shāo bù jìn, chūnfēng chuī yòu shēng.

Wildfire cannot burn it all away — spring wind blows and it grows again.

消防员连夜扑灭了山上的野火。

Xiāofángyuán liányè pūmièle shān shàng de yěhuǒ.

Firefighters worked through the night to extinguish the wildfire on the mountain.

Tips

culture

野火烧不尽，春风吹又生 is a famous couplet from Tang poet Bai Juyi's poem about grass (《赋得古原草送别》), meaning that even wildfire cannot destroy the resilience of nature — one of the most cited lines in Chinese poetry.

Stroke Order

野 yě

火 huǒ