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烘

hōng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

烘 (hōng) means "to bake; to heat by fire; to set off by contrast". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 烘 means

1. to bake
2. to heat by fire
3. to set off by contrast

Example sentences

• 他在火旁烘干他的湿衣服。
  Tā zài huǒ páng hōnggān tā de shīyī fú.
  He dried his wet clothes by the fire.

Words starting with 烘

• 烘托hōng tuōbackground (of a painting); backdrop; a foil (to set off something to advantage)
• 烘烤hōng kǎoto roast; to bake
• 烘干hōng gānto dry over a stove
• 烘染hōng rǎnrelief shading (in a picture); fig. to throw into relief
• 烘炉hōng lúoven
• 烘箱hōng xiāngoven
• 烘制hōng zhìto bake
• 烘豆hōng dòubaked beans
• 烘衬hōng chènto set off; to highlight by contrast
• 烘干机hōng gān jīclothes dryer
• 烘手器hōng shǒu qìhand dryer
• 烘手机hōng shǒu jīhand dryer
• 烘碗机hōng wǎn jīdish dryer
• 烘云托月hōng yún tuō yuèlit. to shade in the clouds to offset the moon (idiom); fig. a foil…
• 烘笼hōng lóngbamboo drying frame
• 烘笼儿hōng lóng rbamboo drying frame
• 烘焙hōng bèito cure by drying over a fire (tea, meat etc); to bake
• 烘焙师hōng bèi shībaker
• 烘焙店hōng bèi diànbakery
• 烘焙鸡hōng bèi jīhomepage (loanword) (humorous)
• 烘动hōng dòngvariant of 轰动

Words containing 烘

• 暖烘烘nuǎn hōng hōngnice and warm; cozy; heartwarming
• 冬烘dōng hōngshallow; uneducated
• 臭烘烘chòu hōng hōngstinking

Characters built on 共

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

• 供gōngto provide; to supply; to be for (the use or convenience of)
• 洪hóngflood; big; great
• 恭gōngrespectful
• 拱gǒngto cup one's hands in salute; to surround; to arch
• 哄hōngroar of laughter (onom.); hubbub; to roar (as a crowd)
• 龚Gōngsurname Gong
• 珙gǒng(gem)
• 栱gǒngpost

Characters that look like 烘

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

• 洪hóngflood; big; great
• 淇qíname of a river
• 拱gǒngto cup one's hands in salute; to surround; to arch
• 炽chìto burn; to blaze; splendid
• 朕zhèn(used by an emperor or king) I; me; we (royal "we"); (literary) omen
• 骐qí(literary) black horse

Sounds the same

Read hōng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 轰explosion; bang; boom
• 哄roar of laughter (onom.); hubbub; to roar (as a crowd)
• 薨death of a prince; swarming
• 訇sound of a crash
• 吽sound of a Buddhist incantation
• 嚝to sigh; sound of a drum
• 𫶕(onomatopoeia) crashing sound; same as 訇
• 焢(archaic) angry appearance

Where 烘 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · hé–hōng (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read hōng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.