in English

shāo verb, noun HSK 5
to burn / to cook / to stew / to bake / to roast / to heat / to boil (tea, water etc) / fever / to run a temperature / (coll.) to let things go to one's head

Stroke order

Le caractère 烧 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 烧 Show the animation
Le caractère 燒 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 燒, the traditional character: 烧 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 但我有能力烧得好菜。

    But I am able to cook well.

  • 你能多烧一点这个肉吗?

    Could you cook this meat a little more?

  • 十间房屋被烧毁了。

    Ten houses were burned down.

  • 塑料不易燃烧。

    Plastic does not burn easily.

  • 她问了怎么烧鱼。

    She asked how to cook the fish.

  • 尼古拉斯的用意是罗马化西里尔字母就犹如太阳般美丽,若是直视会灼烧人的眼睛。

    Nicolas means that romanization of the Cyrillic alphabet is as beautiful as the sun, which burns your eyes when you look at it.

  • 干柴烧得旺。

    Dry wood burns well.

  • 我们在烧水。

    We are boiling water.

All example sentences with 烧

See 烧 in the search results

Share this page