# 炸药 (zhàyào)

In Mandarin Chinese, 炸药 (zhàyào) means “explosive; dynamite”. It is part of the HSK 6 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: explosive; dynamite
- Pinyin: zhàyào (zha4 yao4)
- Traditional: 炸藥
- HSK 3.0 · Level 6

## Examples

- 工人们用炸药开通了山路。
  Gōngrénmen yòng zhàyào kāitōngle shānlù.
  Workers used dynamite to open up the mountain road.

## Characters

- [炸](https://hanziro.com/word/zha-explode/) (zhà): to explode; to burst
- [药](https://hanziro.com/word/yao-medicine/) (yào): medicine

https://hanziro.com/word/zha-yao-explosive/

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