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烙

lào

Character

What 烙 means

1. to brand
2. to iron
3. to bake (in a pan)

Other readings

烙 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• luòused in {炮烙|páo luò}

Words starting with 烙

• 烙印lào yìnto brand (cattle etc); brand; (fig.) to leave a lasting mark
• 烙饼lào bǐngpancake; flat bread; griddle cake
• 烙铁lào tieflatiron; iron; branding iron

Words containing 烙

• 炮烙páo luòform of torture said to have been used by King Zhou of Shang 商纣王
• 电烙铁diàn lào tieelectric iron; electric soldering iron

Characters that look like 烙

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

• 格gésquare; lattice; grid; frame; compartment; partition; slot (within a larger unit)…
• 洛luòused in transliteration
• 赂lùbribe; bribery
• 恪kèrespectful; scrupulous
• 铬gèchromium (chemistry)
• 殇shāngto die in childhood; war dead

Sounds the same

Read lào, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 络small net
• 唠to gossip; to chat (dialect)
• 乐used in place names
• 落colloquial reading for 落
• 酪(bound form) semi-solid food made from milk (junket, cheese etc)…
• 涝flooded
• 嫪longing (unrequited passion)
• 耢a kind of farm tool (in the form of a rectangular frame) used to level the ground…