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hoả thiêu

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This verb refers to the process of burning a deceased person's body to ashes.

vi Gia đình đã quyết định hoả thiêu thi hài.

en The family decided to cremate the body.

Parts
hoả / thiêu / Sino-Vietnamese; the character is 火燒 …
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Components

Components

hoả thiêu

OriginSino-Vietnamese; the character is 火燒

Chinese characters Source-aligned
Representative candidate
火燒
Candidates by syllable
hoả 火 thiêu 燒
Bold marks the representative form aligned to a source as the spelling of the whole word. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. Source and confidence are shown in the heading above.
Similar
hỏa thiêu / nhiên thiêu / tự thiêu / chết thiêu …
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Easily confused

Same spelling, different tone
Ends with this word

nhiên thiêu/tự thiêu/chết thiêu/giàn thiêu

Meaning links

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cremate vi: hoả thiêu / ja: 火葬 / WordNet aligned
Use
tàu hoả / hoả xa / hoả khí / hoả hoạn …
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hoả (Fire element) — words using
thiêu (to burn) — words using
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