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灼

zhuó

Character

What 灼 means

1. to burn; to sear; to scorch
2. bound formbright; luminous

Example sentences

• 用水冲洗灼伤的手指。
  Yòng shuǐ chōngxǐ zhuóshāng de shǒuzhǐ.
  Cool the burned finger in running water.
• 尼古拉斯的用意是罗马化西里尔字母就犹如太阳般美丽，若是直视会灼烧人的眼睛。
  Nicolas means that romanization of the Cyrillic alphabet is as beautiful as the sun, which burns your eyes when you look at it.

Words starting with 灼

• 灼热zhuó rèburning hot; scorching
• 灼伤zhuó shānga burn (tissue damage from heat, chemicals etc); to burn (the skin etc)…
• 灼急zhuó jíworried
• 灼烧zhuó shāoto burn; to scorch
• 灼痛zhuó tòngburn (i.e. wound); burning pain
• 灼见zhuó jiànto see clearly; deep insight; profound view

Words containing 灼

• 焦灼jiāo zhuó(literary) deeply worried
• 真知灼见zhēn zhī zhuó jiànpenetrating insight
• 忧灼yōu zhuóworrying
• 烧灼shāo zhuóto burn; to scorch
• 白灼bái zhuóto blanch (thin slices of vegetables, fish etc)
• 闪灼shǎn zhuóto glitter
• 烧灼伤shāo zhuó shāngburn (injury); scorching
• 烧灼感shāo zhuó gǎnburning pain
• 烧灼疼shāo zhuó téngburning pain
• 胃灼热wèi zhuó rèheartburn; pyrosis

Characters built on 勺

These share the phonetic component 勺 (sháo), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 酌zhuóto pour wine; to drink wine; to deliberate
• 妁shuò(literary) matchmaker (on the bride's side)

Characters that look like 灼

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 的deof; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)…
• 约yuēto make an appointment; to invite; approximately
• 购gòuto buy; to purchase
• 狗gǒudog
• 坞wù(bound form) low area within a surrounding barrier; (literary) small castle; fort
• 罔wǎngto deceive; there is none; old variant of 网

Sounds the same

Read zhuó, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 酌to pour wine; to drink wine; to deliberate
• 卓outstanding
• 浊turbid; muddy; impure
• 琢to cut (gems)
• 著used in 执著
• 啄to peck
• 濯to wash; to cleanse of evil
• 擢to pull out; to select; to promote
• 斫to chop; to hack; to carve wood
• 着to wear (clothes); to contact; to use
• 镯bracelet
• 茁to display vigorous, new growth; to sprout