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烧
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Definitions
- 1. to burn
- 2. to cook
- 3. to stew
- 4. to bake
- 5. to roast
- 6. to heat
- 7. to boil (tea, water etc)
- 8. fever
- 9. to run a temperature
- 10. (coll.) to let things go to one's head
Example Sentences
1 shown烧 一点水。
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Words Containing 烧
a low fever (up to 38°C)
fan
sukiyaki
caustic soda NaOH
to burn joss paper
burnout
to heat until red-hot
takoyaki (octopus dumpling), a Japanese snack food
to burn
to cook
teriyaki (Japanese cooking technique)
to burn incense and worship Buddha
red braised pork
Molotov cocktail
to invite trouble
to light a fire for cooking
to burn to death
to cook
barbecue (Cantonese style)
to boil
to burn (a CD or DVD)
to forget oneself in extravagance
simmer-fried (dish)
to make tea
to worry
see 真金不怕火煉|真金不怕火炼[zhēn jīn bù pà huǒ liàn]
stewed eggplant
lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation
restless with anxiety
programmer (electronics)
to burn incense
stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt
a still (for distilling alcohol)
to manufacture charcoal
dorayaki (a Japanese confection)
to roast
laboratory flask
to singe (textiles)
burn (injury)
yakiniku (Japanese-style grilled meat)
to burn paper offerings (as part of religious ceremony)
shumai (shao mai) steamed dumpling
barbecue sauce
to have a high temperature (from illness)
burnt offering (Judaism)
to choose which Buddha to burn incense to (idiom); fig. to curry favor from the right person
kettle
nuée ardente
fever
to fire (pottery)
steamed bun stuffed with skewer-roasted pork
to sinter
to bury
teppanyaki
to reduce fever
incendiary agent
burning pain
to cook on a skewer
barbecue
incendiary bomb
While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope.
burning pain
lit. even a prairie fire cannot destroy the grass - it grows again when the breeze blows (proverb)
to clear waste land or forest by burning
to set fire to
antipyretic (drug to reduce fever, such as sulfanilamide)
baked sesame seed-coated cake
name of a famous Tang dynasty wine
to casserole
deflagrating spoon
to heat water
lit. to clasp the Buddha's feet when danger arises (idiom); fig. to profess devotion only when in trouble
siu mei
to burn
to calcine (purify by heating)
char siu
to burn incense
to burn coal
beaker (glassware)
to burn
to fire (in a kiln)
to weld
burn (injury)
fire bomb
to burn
to burn the candle at both ends (idiom)
shumai (shao mai) steamed dumpling
to have a fever reaching (a certain temperature)
to ignite