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发烧

fā shāo

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 發燒

发烧 (fā shāo) means "to have a high temperature (from illness)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 发烧 means

1. to have a high temperature (from illness); to have a fever
2. (fig.) to be fascinated with; to obsess over
3. (fig.) flourishing; thriving; popular

The characters in 发烧

• 发fāto send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue
• 烧shāoto burn; to set on fire; to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc); to braise

Example sentences

• 我发烧了。
  I have a high temperature.
• 你没发烧。
  You have no fever.
• 他没发烧。
  He doesn't have a fever.
• 我有点发烧。
  I have a slight fever.
• 你发烧了吗？
  Do you have a fever?
• 汤姆不发烧。
  Tom doesn't have a temperature.

Words starting with 发烧

• 发烧友fā shāo yǒufan; zealot

Where 发烧 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Health & Illness (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
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