烧
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to burn; to set on fire; to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc); to braise; to cook; to prepare food; to run a fever; fever; (coll.) to become full of oneself; to get carried away
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 火 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 燒
- Common rank
- #839
- Unicode
- U+70E7
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 烧
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 烧利市 | (old) to burn paper money as an offering | |
| 日式烧肉 | yakiniku (Japanese-style grilled meat) | |
| 平时不烧香，临时抱佛脚 | (lit.) to never burn incense when all's well, but clutch Buddha's feet in a crisis (prover… | |
| 烧高香 | to burn incense; to thank profusely | |
| 红烧肉 | red braised pork | |
| 火烧云 | nuée ardente; hot cloud of volcanic ash | |
| 真金不怕火来烧 | see 真金不怕火煉|真金不怕火炼[zhen1 jin1 bu4 pa4 huo3 lian4] | |
| 烧水 | to heat water; to boil water | |
| 烧心 | to worry | |
| 引火烧身 | to invite trouble | |
| 高烧 | (medicine) high fever | |
| 发烧 | to have a high temperature (from illness); to have a fever; (fig.) to be fascinated with; … | |
| 烧开 | to boil | |
| 铁板烧 | teppanyaki | |
| 烧红 | to heat until red-hot | |
| 红烧 | to braise in soy sauce until reddish-brown | |
| 火烧眉毛 | lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation; extreme emergency | |
| 火烧 | to set fire to; to burn down; burning hot; baked cake | |
| 烧火 | to light a fire for cooking | |
| 锅烧意面 | nabeyaki egg noodles |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 尧 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尧 sound part | a legendary ancient emperor-sage | |
| 绕 | to entwine, to wind around; to orbit, to revolve | |
| 饶 | abundant, bountiful | |
| 翘 | outstanding; to elevate, to lift, to raise | |
| 晓 | dawn; clear, explicit, known | |
| 挠 | to yield; to scratch, to disturb | |
| 浇 | to spray, to sprinkle, to water | |
| 跷 | to stand on tiptoe; stilts | |
| 侥 | to be lucky; by chance, by luck | |
| 桡 | radius, forearm; a bent or twisted piece of wood | |
| 蛲 | parasitic worm; human pinworm | |
| 骁 | valiant, brave; skilled; a noble steed | |
| 娆 | graceful, charming, fascinating | |
| 荛 | fuel, firewood; grass, shrub; Wikstroemia japonica | |
| 哓 | garrulous; disturbed; restless | |
| 硗 | barren land; sandy soil | |
| 铙 | cymbals, hand-bell; to disturb |