shāo

Traditional: 燒

HSK 4

烧 (shāo) is a Chinese word meaning “to burn; to cook; to stew”.

Meanings

  1. 1to burn
  2. 2to cook
  3. 3to stew
  4. 4to bake
  5. 5to roast
  6. 6to heat
  7. 7to boil (tea, water etc)
  8. 8fever
  9. 9to run a temperature
  10. 10(coll.) to let things go to one's head
Part of speech
verb

Related words

燃烧to ignite发烧to have a high temperature (from illness); to have a fever烧烤barbecue烧伤burn (injury)烧毁to destroy (or be destroyed) by fire火烧to set fire to焚烧to burn烧酒name of a famous Tang dynasty wine高烧(medicine) high fever燃烧弹fire bomb退烧to reduce a fever烧灼to burn; to scorch

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