Dictionary › 烧开

烧开

shāo kāi

2-character word Traditional 燒開

What 烧开 means

1. to boil

The characters in 烧开

• 烧shāoto burn; to set on fire; to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc); to braise
• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…

Example sentences

• 把水烧开。
  Bǎ shuǐ shāokāi.
  Boil the water.
• 杰西正在烧开水来冲咖啡。
  Jiéxī zhèngzài shāokāi shuǐ lái chōng kāfēi.
  Jessie is boiling water to make coffee.
• 就算不盯着烧水壶水也会烧开的。
  A watched pot never boils.

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shāo kāi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.