烘
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to bake; to heat by fire; to set off by contrast
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 火 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 烘
- Common rank
- #2,240
- Unicode
- U+70D8
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 烘
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 烘手机 | hand dryer | |
| 烘手器 | hand dryer | |
| 烘云托月 | lit. to shade in the clouds to offset the moon (idiom); fig. a foil; a contrasting charact… | |
| 烘干机 | clothes dryer | |
| 烘动 | variant of 轟動|轰动[hong1 dong4] | |
| 烘制 | to bake | |
| 烘干 | to dry over a stove | |
| 烘笼儿 | bamboo drying frame | |
| 烘托 | background (of a painting); backdrop; a foil (to set off something to advantage); to offse… | |
| 烘豆 | baked beans | |
| 烘碗机 | dish dryer | |
| 烘箱 | oven | |
| 烘染 | relief shading (in a picture); fig. to throw into relief | |
| 冬烘 | shallow; uneducated | |
| 烘焙鸡 | homepage (loanword) (humorous) | |
| 烘焙师 | baker | |
| 烘炉 | oven | |
| 烘焙店 | bakery | |
| 暖烘烘 | nice and warm; cozy; heartwarming | |
| 臭烘烘 | stinking |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 共 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 共 sound part | all, total; together; to share | |
| 拱 | to salute, to bow; arched; arch | |
| 恭 | polite, respectful, reverent | |
| 粪 | manure, dung; shit, excrement | |
| 哄 | to coax; to beguile, to cheat, to deceive; tumult, uproar | |
| 珙 | precious stone; a county in Sichuan | |
| 蕻 | budding, flourishing | |
| 龚 | to give, to present; reverential | |
| 栱 | stake, post; pillar; peg | |
| 輂 | horse-drawn carriage | |
| 衖 | alley, lane |