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火烧

huǒ shāo

2-character word Traditional 火燒

What 火烧 means

1. to set fire to
2. to burn down
3. burning hot
4. baked cake

The characters in 火烧

• 火huǒfire; urgent; ammunition
• 烧shāoto burn; to set on fire; to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc); to braise

Example sentences

• 爸爸用火烧鸡肉
  Bàba yòng huǒ shāo jīròu
  Dad uses fire to roast a chicken.
• 战火烧到了非洲。
  Zhànhuǒ shāodào le Fēizhōu.
  The war in Europe was carried into Africa.
• 他放火烧了校舍。
  Tā fànghuǒ shāo le xiàoshè.
  He set fire to the school building.
• 房子被大火烧成了灰烬。
  Fángzi bèi dàhuǒ shāo chéngle huījìn.
  The fire reduced the house to ashes.
• 他放火烧了自己的房子。
  He set fire to his own house.
• 我的喉咙好像被火烧一样。
  Wǒ de hóulóng hǎoxiàng bèi huǒshāo yīyàng.
  My throat burns.

Words starting with 火烧

• 火烧云huǒ shāo yúnnuée ardente; hot cloud of volcanic ash
• 火烧眉毛huǒ shāo méi maolit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation; extreme emergency
• 火烧火燎huǒ shāo huǒ liǎorestless with anxiety; to feel unbearably painful or hot

Words containing 火烧

• 引火烧身yǐn huǒ shāo shēnto invite trouble
• 惹火烧身rě huǒ shāo shēnstir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt…
• 野火烧不尽，春风吹又生yě huǒ shāo bù jìn , chūn fēng chuī yòu shēnglit. even a prairie fire cannot destroy the grass - it grows again when the breeze blows…