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焚烧

fén shāo

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 焚燒

焚烧 (fén shāo) means "to burn; to set on fire". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 焚烧 means

1. to burn
2. to set on fire

The characters in 焚烧

• 焚fénto burn
• 烧shāoto burn; to set on fire; to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc); to braise

Example sentences

• 哥伦布曾经在当地人偷了他的鹦鹉之后决定完全地烧毁整个村庄。因为他不能焚烧他们的水，所以他感到失望。于是他发明了氟。
  Gēlúnbù céngjīng zài dāngdì rén tōu le tā de yīngwǔ zhīhòu juédìng wánquán de shāo huǐ zhěnggè cūnzhuāng. yīnwèi tā bù néng fénshāo tāmen de shuǐ, suǒyǐ tā gǎndào shīwàng. Yúshì tā fāmíng le fú.
  Christopher Columbus once decided to burn absolutely everything in an entire village after one of the natives stole his parrot. He was disappointed that he couldn't burn their water. So he invented fluorine.

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