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  *烧* | 烧* | *烧
to burn; to set on fire / to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc) / to braise / to cook; to prepare food / to run a fever / fever / (coll.) to become full of oneself; to get carried away
HSK 4
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  *辣* | 辣* | *辣
hot (spicy) / pungent / (of chili pepper, raw onions etc) to sting / to burn
HSK 4
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  *着* | 着* | *着
to touch / to come in contact with / to feel / to be affected by / to catch fire / to burn / (coll.) to fall asleep / (after a verb) hitting the mark / succeeding in
HSK 4
to burn; to scorch
to burn the midnight oil / to work late into the night
HSK 6
to ignite / to combust / to burn / combustion / flaming
HSK 4
smoke from incense (burned as an offering to one's ancestors); (fig.) continuation of family line / cigarette (CL:,條|条,,,)
HSK 7-9
to burn down (idiom)
scorching hot / (of a burn or other injury) painful; burning / (of one's mood) agitated; heated; intense / (of a personality) fiery; sharp-tongued / (Tw) (of a woman's figure) smoking hot
HSK 7-9
to abrade; to scrape; to chafe; to graze / abrasion; friction burn; scratch
to burn / to set on fire
HSK 7-9
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  *燃* | 燃* | *燃
to burn / to ignite / to light / fig. to spark off (hopes) / to start (debate) / to raise (hopes)
lit. when one grass burns the other grass sighs (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress
(idiom) to suffer the departure of sb (talented staff or one's spouse etc) and a financial loss as well; to get burned both romantically and financially
lit. to break the cauldrons and sink the boats (idiom); fig. to cut off one's means of retreat / to burn one's boats
lit. to never burn incense when all's well, but clutch Buddha's feet in a crisis (proverb) / fig. to neglect preparation until the last moment, then act in panic
lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes / fig. to waste valuable resources / to destroy wantonly beautiful things
to kill and burn (idiom); murder and arson
to burn incense and worship Buddha
While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope.
to burn coal
to burn / to scorch / burned / burning / scorched / charred
to burn joss paper / (fig.) to flush money down the toilet
to burn fat; to lose weight (through diet or exercise)
lit. burn your hand, feel the heat (idiom) / fig. arrogance of the powerful / a mighty figure no-one dares approach / hot (exciting or in favor)
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  *烫* | 烫* | *烫
to scald / to burn (by scalding) / to blanch (cooking) / to heat (sth) up in hot water / to perm / to iron / scalding hot
HSK 7-9
lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency
to burn incense
to manufacture charcoal / to burn charcoal (often a reference to suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning)
(surname) Burns / Nicholas Burns (1956–), US ambassador to China 2022–2025
(electronics) screen burn-in
to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇)
to burn incense in prayer to a God
to burn both jade and common stone / to destroy indiscriminately (idiom)
clenbuterol hydrochloride (diet pill that burns fat) / e.g. Spiropent
to set fire to / to burn down / burning hot / baked cake
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  *灼* | 灼* | *灼
to burn; to sear; to scorch / (bound form) bright; luminous
slash and burn (agriculture)
lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency
burn (injury) / scorching
to burn one's eyebrows / fig. desperately serious situation
to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard / to study diligently / to burn the candle at both ends
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  *燎* | 燎* | *燎
to burn / to set afire
to make a temple pilgrimage and burn incense
to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom); fig. to work into the night / to burn the midnight oil
false paper money burned as an offering to the dead
burn (i.e. wound) / burning pain
to clear waste land or forest by burning / slash-and-burn (agriculture)
to burn incense / to thank profusely
to burn the candle at both ends (idiom) / to labor under a double burden
to put to the torch (idiom) / to commit to the flames / to burn sth down deliberately
Auld Lang Syne, Scottish song with lyrics by Robert Burns 羅伯特·伯恩斯|罗伯特·伯恩斯, sung to mark the start of a new year or as a farewell / also rendered 友誼萬歲|友谊万岁 or 友誼天長地久|友谊天长地久
to burn incense
to record on a CD or DVD / to burn a disc
to burn (a CD or DVD)
to burn without flame; to smolder
to burn (food by overroasting etc)
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  *炽* | 炽* | *炽
to burn / to blaze / splendid / illustrious
burn incense
to burn incense
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  *燔* | 燔* | *燔
burn / to roast meat for sacrifice
to go too far; to go overboard (in words or actions) / over the top; excessive / burned
lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence / sth malevolent returns to haunt one
to burn incense at a temple
to choose which Buddha to burn incense to (idiom); fig. to curry favor from the right person
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  *炷* | 炷* | *炷
wick of an oil lamp / to burn (incense etc) / classifier for lit incense sticks
to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day
burn (injury)
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  *㶶* | 㶶* | *㶶
(dialect) to burn / to scorch
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  *畬* | 畬* | *畬
(literary) slash-and-burn agriculture
to forget oneself in extravagance / to burn money
to burn to death
to burn down / to destroy with fire
to burn down / to destroy with fire
false paper money burned as an offering to the dead
without a retreat route / caught in a dead end / having burned one's bridges
(old) to burn paper money as an offering
to get angry / to burn with rage
to burn
to burn paper offerings (as part of religious ceremony)
a burn (tissue damage from heat, chemicals etc) / to burn (the skin etc) / (fig.) (of anger, jealousy etc) to hurt (sb)
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  *惔* | 惔* | *惔
to burn
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  *烗* | 烗* | *烗
to burn / to blaze
lit. badly burned about the head (from trying to put out a fire) (idiom) / fig. hard-pressed; under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc)
Three Alls Policy (kill all, burn all, loot all), Japanese policy in China during WWII
to burn; to scorch
to burn with anxiety
to suffer / to suffer for one's actions / to pay dearly / to burn one's fingers
to cover a fire (to make it burn slowly)
to scorch / to burn to charcoal / sick with worry
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  *爇* | 爇* | *爇
heat / to burn
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  *爇* | 爇* | *爇
burn / heat
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  *焌* | 焌* | *焌
to extinguish a burning object / to singe sth with a smoldering object (e.g. burn a hole in one's trousers with a cigarette) / to stir-fry / to pour a mixture of hot oil and flavorings over food
lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil / work especially hard
blister (caused by burns)
lit. to burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds (idiom); fig. to destroy indiscriminately the noble and common / the rain falls on the just and unjust alike
paper ingots (burned as offerings to the dead)
(literary) slash-and-burn agriculture
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  *焚* | 焚* | *焚
to burn
Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet

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