烧

燒traditional

HSK 5#1488 by frequencyradical 火

shāo["v"]

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

Examples

烧一点水。

Boil some water.

锅烧干了。

The pan boiled dry.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.