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Meaning of 燧

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Pinyin: suì
English Definition: fire; speculum; to obtain fire by drilling wood, striking flint, sun's rays etc
Chinese Definition:
①上古取火的器具:燧石。燧人氏(传说中人工取火的发明者)。
②古代告警的烽火:烽燧。
Total strokes: 17; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (fire) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Left to right
    • [ huǒ ] fire, flame; to burn; anger, rage
    • [ suì ] to fail; to follow, to comply with
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Example Words
燧石 suì shí flint
燧人氏 suì rén shì Suirenshi, legendary inventor of fire
烽燧 fēng suì fire beacon tower (used in frontier regions in former times to relay information about the enemy, using smoke by day and fire at night)
燧人 suì rén Suiren, legendary inventor of fire
古烽燧 fēng suì ancient fire beacon towers (archaeological sites in Xinjiang)
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Example Sentences
1
At that time, Suiren discovered the method of making fire by drilling wood, but didn't know much about keeping and utilizing fire.
2
Now I was touching buttons and the firing mechanism of a visitor from perhaps 100 years ago.
3
Subsequently, Suirenshi, one of the 3 Emperors, buried in Shangqiu and worshipped by the later generations.
4
According to the existing materials, Zhuli in wooden slips of the Han Dynasty were the junior basic officials such as Suizhang, Fuzuo, Zhizuo, Lingshi, etc.
5
Buried in the soil, in a place I didn' t expect many had ever visited, I found a series of old military buttons and a flintlock musket.