烧

Pinyin: shāo

to burn; to set on fire; fever; to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc)

🏮 Chinese HSK 5 verbnoun

Example sentence

锅烧干了。

Guō shāo gàn le.

The pan boiled dry.

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What 烧 means

烧 (shāo) is a Chinese word meaning “to burn; to set on fire; fever; to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc)”. It appears in the HSK 5 collection.

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Words and levels: HSK Examination Syllabus (2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation · meanings: CC-CEDICT · example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) · Dictionary-derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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