灼
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to burn; to sear; to scorch; (bound form) bright; luminous
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 火 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 灼
- Common rank
- #2,626
- Unicode
- U+707C
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
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Words with 灼
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 真知灼见 | penetrating insight | |
| 烧灼感 | burning pain | |
| 烧灼伤 | burn (injury); scorching | |
| 白灼 | to blanch (thin slices of vegetables, fish etc) | |
| 日灼 | sun scorch; sunscald | |
| 灼热 | burning hot; scorching | |
| 灼见 | to see clearly; deep insight; profound view | |
| 胃灼热 | heartburn; pyrosis | |
| 灼伤 | a burn (tissue damage from heat, chemicals etc); to burn (the skin etc); (fig.) (of anger,… | |
| 灼急 | worried | |
| 灼痛 | burn (i.e. wound); burning pain | |
| 灼烧 | to burn; to scorch | |
| 烧灼 | to burn; to scorch | |
| 闪灼 | to glitter | |
| 烧灼疼 | burning pain | |
| 焦灼 | (literary) deeply worried | |
| 忧灼 | worrying |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 勺 — compare how they read.