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烧

shāo

HSK 3 Character Traditional 燒

What 烧 means

1. to burn; to set on fire
2. to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc)
3. to braise
4. to cook; to prepare food
5. to run a fever
6. fever
7. colloquialto become full of oneself; to get carried away

Example sentences

• 把水烧开。
  Bǎ shuǐ shāokāi.
  Boil the water.
• 烧一点水。
  Boil some water.
• 我发烧了。
  I have a high temperature.
• 纸烧得快。
  Paper burns quickly.
• 你没发烧。
  You have no fever.
• 他没发烧。
  He doesn't have a fever.

Words starting with 烧

• 烧烤shāo kǎobarbecue; to roast
• 烧饼shāo bingbaked sesame seed-coated cake
• 烧毁shāo huǐto destroy (or be destroyed) by fire
• 烧香shāo xiāngto burn incense
• 烧伤shāo shāngburn (injury)
• 烧死shāo sǐto burn to death
• 烧水shāo shuǐto heat water; to boil water
• 烧火shāo huǒto light a fire for cooking
• 烧开shāo kāito boil
• 烧酒shāo jiǔname of a famous Tang dynasty wine; same as 白酒
• 烧红shāo hóngto heat until red-hot
• 烧纸shāo zhǐto burn paper offerings (as part of religious ceremony)
• 烧锅shāo guōa still (for distilling alcohol)
• 烧制shāo zhìto fire (in a kiln)
• 烧到shāo dàoto have a fever reaching (a certain temperature)
• 烧包shāo bāoto forget oneself in extravagance; to burn money
• 烧味shāo wèisiu mei; Cantonese-style barbecue…
• 烧心shāo xīnto worry
• 烧毛shāo máo(textiles) to singe
• 烧硬shāo yìngto fire (pottery)
• 烧结shāo jiéto sinter; to agglomerate ore by burning
• 烧脑shāo nǎo(neologism, attested by 2016) (coll.) (of a situation, problem or piece of content)…
• 烧菜shāo càito cook
• 烧卖shāo màishumai (shao mai) steamed dumpling; also written 烧麦

Words containing 烧

• 发烧fā shāoto have a high temperature (from illness); to have a fever; (fig.) to be fascinated with…
• 燃烧rán shāoto ignite; to combust; to burn
• 火烧huǒ shāoto set fire to; to burn down; burning hot
• 红烧hóng shāoto braise in soy sauce until reddish-brown
• 高烧gāo shāo(medicine) high fever
• 焚烧fén shāoto burn; to set on fire
• 红烧肉hóng shāo ròured braised pork
• 发烧友fā shāo yǒufan; zealot
• 叉烧chā shāochar siu; barbecued pork
• 退烧tuì shāoto reduce a fever
• 低烧dī shāoa low fever (up to 38°C)
• 延烧yán shāo(of fire) to continue burning; to spread; (fig.)…
• 照烧zhào shāoteriyaki (Japanese cooking technique)
• 火烧云huǒ shāo yúnnuée ardente; hot cloud of volcanic ash
• 燃烧剂rán shāo jìincendiary agent
• 燃烧弹rán shāo dànfire bomb; incendiary device
• 章鱼烧zhāng yú shāotakoyaki (octopus dumpling), a Japanese snack food
• 退烧药tuì shāo yàoantipyretic (drug to reduce fever, such as sulfanilamide)
• 铁板烧tiě bǎn shāoteppanyaki
• 引火烧身yǐn huǒ shāo shēnto invite trouble
• 日式烧肉Rì shì shāo ròuyakiniku (Japanese-style grilled meat)
• 燃烧瓶rán shāo píngMolotov cocktail
• 全烧祭quán shāo jìburnt offering (Judaism)
• 寿喜烧shòu xǐ shāosukiyaki

Characters built on 尧

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

• 绕ràoto wind; to coil (thread); to rotate around
• 饶ráorich; abundant; exuberant
• 挠náoto scratch; to thwart; to yield
• 娆ráograceful
• 桡náo(literary) to disturb; (literary) to weaken
• 铙náobig cymbals
• 蛲náoparasitic worm; human pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis)
• 荛ráofuel; grass

Characters that look like 烧

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

• 绕ràoto wind; to coil (thread); to rotate around
• 晓xiǎodawn; daybreak; to know
• 饶ráorich; abundant; exuberant
• 娩miǎnto give birth to a child
• 挠náoto scratch; to thwart; to yield
• 婕jiéused in 婕妤

Sounds the same

Read shāo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 稍somewhat; a little
• 捎to bring sth to sb; to deliver
• 梢tip of branch
• 筲pot-scrubbing brush made of bamboo strips; basket (container) for chopsticks; variant of 筲
• 蛸octopus; used in 蟏蛸
• 艄stern of boat
• 弰ends of a bow
• 旓serrated edges on a Chinese flag
• 莦jungle grass; lair
• 髾tail of a comet; long hair