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石火
shí​huǒ

sparks from flint

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
石火 shí​huǒ
sparks from flint
(literary) sparks produced by striking stones together
fleeting existence
used metaphorically to describe things that are transient or the shortness of human life