爆炸 (bào zhà) means “explosion; to explode; to blow up; to detonate”. It is an HSK 6 Chinese word in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
Practice each character:
工厂发生了爆炸。
Gōngchǎng fāshēng le bàozhà.
An explosion occurred at the factory.
Updated: 2026-05-27