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燃烧

rán shāo

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 燃燒

燃烧 (rán shāo) means "to burn; to ignite". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 燃烧 means

1. to ignite
2. to combust
3. to burn
4. combustion
5. flaming

The characters in 燃烧

• 燃ránto burn; to ignite; to light
• 烧shāoto burn; to set on fire; to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc); to braise

Example sentences

• 塑料不易燃烧。
  Sùliào bù yì ránshāo.
  Plastic does not burn easily.
• 木头很容易燃烧。
  Mùtou hěn róngyì ránshāo.
  Wood burns very easily.
• 这房子正在燃烧着。
  Zhè fángzi zhèngzài ránshāo zhe.
  The house is burning.
• 硫磺燃烧着蓝色的火焰。
  Liúhuáng ránshāo zhe lánsè de huǒyàn.
  Sulfur burns with a blue flame.
• 二氧化碳是燃烧煤、石油或天然气这样的燃料时会产生的气体。
  èryǎnghuàtàn shì ránshāo méi, shíyóu huò tiānránqì zhèyàng de ránliào shí huì chǎnshēng de qìtǐ.
  Carbon dioxide is a gas that is produced every time a fuel such as coal, oil, or natural gas is burned.
• 我在黑暗的巷子中绊倒，膝盖砸在柏油路上。一块木板盖着巷弄的房屋之间的电线。深夜的巷弄非常之暗。我的眼镜从眼睛上掉了下来。幸好有一位带着手电筒的广东工人帮忙。我的膝盖只是擦破了皮。我想起另一次膝盖摔伤是在菲律宾奎松市的唐荷西高地。那里有一大片火星般的红土地，遍地长满了「塔拉希布」草。有时工人会故意纵火烧草。我和哥哥当时还在外面玩。那时我们还未到青春期。在燃烧的野草旁，我摔倒了，膝盖着地。我的贝贝姥姥愤怒不已。家里的女佣在车库后面的大磁砖水槽里帮我清洗了双腿。
  I tripped in the alleyway in the darkness, as I crashed my knees on the asphalt. There was a wooden board that covered a wire between houses across the alleyway. It was very dark there at night. My eyeglasses fell off my face. Luckily, a Cantonese labourer with a flashlight helped me. My knees just got scraped. I remember another time when I crashed on my knees. It was at Don José Heights in Quezon City in the Philippines. There was a vastness of Martianesque red soil, wherein the "talahib" grass grew. Sometimes, workers intentionally set the grass on fire. My brother and I were still playing, even then, outside. We were still prepubescent. Near burning grass, I stumbled on my knees. My grandmother, Lola Bebe, was so angry. A maid washed my legs in the big tiled sink behind the garage.

Words starting with 燃烧

• 燃烧剂rán shāo jìincendiary agent
• 燃烧弹rán shāo dànfire bomb; incendiary device
• 燃烧瓶rán shāo píngMolotov cocktail
• 燃烧匙rán shāo chídeflagrating spoon; combustion spoon

Where 燃烧 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Persuasion, Advice & Shortage (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.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read rán shāo correctly.
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