







poke the fire
stir the fire
When I poked the fire, it quickly burst into flames.
The first chopsticks were probably used for cooking, stirring the fire and not as eating utensils.

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Open the tool →拨火 (bō huǒ) means “poke the fire, stir the fire”.
拨火 is pronounced bō huǒ in Mandarin Chinese.
“poke the fire” is 拨火 (bō huǒ) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 拨火, each with pinyin and an English translation.