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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 烧

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
烧 shāo - 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

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- 4 1,049 1,929 977

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

⿰ 火 尧

Radical:

火

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

尧

Semantic:

火

Hint:

Fire

Other Words Containing 烧

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
烧 - 4 1,049 1,929 977
燃烧 5 4 3,705 5,547 5,363
发烧 3 4 5,839 - -
烧烤 - 7 5,897 8,388 3,560
烧伤 - - 6,322 9,331 20,239
烧毁 - 7 6,839 15,312 25,231
火烧 - - 11,265 14,848 10,271
焚烧 - 8 13,751 14,860 25,607
烧酒 - - 16,021 45,880 26,233
高烧 - - 16,757 22,214 18,649
燃烧弹 - - 21,466 61,027 65,282
退烧 - - 28,060 32,783 15,991
烧灼 - - 28,190 39,997 55,851
烧夷弹 - - 29,425 - -
红烧 - - 33,405 16,104 7,023
引火烧身 - - 33,735 73,258 62,967
烧瓶 - - 35,962 65,410 68,189
烧杯 - - 37,427 52,005 71,208
烧香 - - 39,251 23,915 15,462
烧饼 - - 41,256 22,064 12,573
退烧药 - - 43,671 - -
低烧 - - 46,111 - -
烧火 - - 50,567 44,178 41,857
火烧云 - - 64,388 94,752 53,594
烧制 - - 64,421 - -
烧纸 - - 64,799 42,527 24,174
烧炭 - - 65,628 - -
火烧火燎 - - 70,973 91,707 70,808
红烧肉 - - 83,563 - -
烧心 - - 86,655 59,903 29,383
烧碱 - - 87,688 41,146 74,396
烧荒 - - 92,390 94,063 -
煅烧 - - 92,764 59,223 108,239