Chinese symbol for “firefighting”
消防
xiāo fáng
firefighting; fire control
The closest CC-CEDICT match for firefighting is 消防 (xiāo fáng), defined as: firefighting; fire control.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “firefighting”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 扑救 (撲救) | pū jiù | firefighting; to extinguish a fire and save life and property |
| 灭火 (滅火) | miè huǒ | to extinguish a fire; firefighting |
| 救火 | jiù huǒ | to put out a fire; firefighting |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 消防.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 消息 | xiāo xi | (piece of) news; information; message |
| 取消 | qǔ xiāo | to cancel; to call off; to revoke; to rescind |
| 消费 (消費) | xiāo fèi | to consume (goods and services, resources etc) |
| 消失 | xiāo shī | to disappear; to fade away |
| 消费者 (消費者) | xiāo fèi zhě | consumer |
| 消灭 (消滅) | xiāo miè | to put an end to; to annihilate |
| 防止 | fáng zhǐ | to prevent; to guard against |
| 预防 (預防) | yù fáng | to prevent; to take precautions against |
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.