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烫

tàng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 character level 6 Character Traditional 燙

烫 (tàng) means "scalding hot". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 烫 means

1. to scald
2. to burn (by scalding)
3. to blanch (cooking)
4. to heat (sth) up in hot water
5. to perm
6. to iron
7. scalding hot

Example sentences

• 汤太烫了。
  The soup is too hot.
• 咖啡很烫。
  The coffee is very hot.
• 她烫了他的衬衫。
  Tā tàng le tā de chènshān.
  She ironed his shirts.
• 我在烫我的手绢。
  Wǒ zài tàng wǒ de shǒujuàn.
  I‘m ironing my handkerchiefs.
• 我被熨斗烫伤了。
  Wǒ bèi yùndǒu tàngshāng le.
  I was burnt by the iron.
• 我给沸水烫伤了。
  Wǒ gěi fèishuǐ tàngshāng le.
  I burned myself with boiling water.

Words starting with 烫

• 烫伤tàng shāngto scald
• 烫金tàng jīn(printing) to stamp with gold foil; to bronze
• 烫平tàng píngto press (clothes); to iron out (wrinkles)
• 烫斗tàng dǒuclothes iron
• 烫衣tàng yīto iron (clothes)
• 烫发tàng fàperm (hairstyle)
• 烫衣板tàng yī bǎnironing board
• 烫头发tàng tóu faperm; to perm hair
• 烫手山芋tàng shǒu shān yùhot potato; problem; trouble

Words containing 烫

• 滚烫gǔn tàngboiling hot
• 发烫fā tàngburning hot
• 麻辣烫má là tànghot spicy soup (often sold at street stalls)
• 熨烫yùn tàngto iron (clothes)
• 火烫huǒ tàngburning hot; fiery; to have one's hair permed with hot curling tongs
• 热烫rè tàngto burn
• 蒸汽挂烫机zhēng qì guà tàng jīgarment steamer
• 氽烫tǔn tàngto blanch (cooking)
• 死猪不怕开水烫sǐ zhū bù pà kāi shuǐ tàng(lit.) a dead pig doesn't fear scalding water (saying)…

Characters that look like 烫

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

• 案àn(legal) case; incident; record
• 堕duòto fall; to sink; (fig.) to degenerate
• 庸yōngordinary; to use
• 匮kuìto lack; lacking; empty
• 鸯yāngused in 鸳鸯
• 谀yúto flatter

Sounds the same

Read tàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 趟classifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip

Where 烫 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Encountering & Physical Contact (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 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 tàng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.